Legal Opinion
Schlessinger v. Olsen
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided September 30, 1981No. 54227PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
On September 29, 1978, the plaintiffs, Shirley Schlessinger and Portia Kern, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County challenging the constitutionality of an amended version of the Real Estate Transfer Tax Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1978 Supp., ch. 120, par. 1003). This court had previously declared unconstitutional an earlier version of the Act. (See Saltiel v. Olsen (1979), 77 Ill. 2d 23.) The plaintiffs alleged in the six-count complaint that they were representing all others who had paid the tax, or, alternatively, all Illinois taxpayers.
The plaintiffs made a motion for…
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