Pilsen Neighbors Community Council and National Consumers Foundation v. Dawn Clark Netsch, Comptroller of the State of Illinois

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Pilsen Neighbors Community Council (“Pilsen Neighbors”) and National Consumers Foundation (“NCF”) challenge the constitutionality of the Illinois Voluntary Payroll Deduction Act, which allows Illinois state employees to direct a specified portion of their pay to certain participating charities. Pilsen Neighbors and NCF are tax-exempt, non-profit corporations who applied unsuccessfully to the Illinois Comptroller’s Office in 1980 for qualification under the Act’s predecessor statute. They allege in their complaint for declaratory judgment and injunctive…