Legal Opinion
Cannon v. Edgar
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 1994No. 93-2968PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
In 1992, Illinois enacted the Illinois Burial Rights Act. Passed in response to a strike by a union of gravediggers, the Burial Rights Act requires, among other things, that cemeteries and unions agree on a pool of workers to perform interments for persons whose religious faith requires that their dead be buried within a day or two of death. A gravediggers’ union, the Service Employees International Union, Local 106, AFL-CIO, union member Stevie Powell, and union leaders Jay Cannon and Thomas Carey (“the gravediggers”) sued Illinois Governor James Edgar, Illinois Attorney…
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