Geary v. Dominick's Finer Foods, Inc.

Plaintiffs, Adrienne Geary, Marge E. Mulcahy, and Maureen E. Ryan, initiated a class action suit alleging that R. Thomas Johnson, as director of the Illinois Department of Revenue, the City of Chicago and Charles Sawyer, as director of the Chicago Department of Revenue (city defendants), and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) imposed illegal taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins plaintiffs purchased from Dominick’s Finer Foods, Inc., Jewel Food Stores, Inc., Walgreens Company, and K mart Corporation (retail defendants). The circuit court held that the voluntary-payment doctrine did…