Legal Opinion
Maguire v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 26, 1992No. 90-3505PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Naprapathy is defined as “a therapeutic system of drugless treatment by manipulation depending on the theory that disease symptoms result from disorder in the ligaments and connective tissues.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1971).
Paul Maguire and the other plaintiff doctors of naprapathy appeal from the district court’s dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that the Illinois Medical Practice Act of 1987 deprives them of their federal constitutional rights to due process and equal protection. The plaintiffs assert that the Illinois General…
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