Legal Opinion · Dissent
Davis v. Attic Club
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided December 21, 1977No. 62654Published
1Dissent
Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON,
dissenting:
The resolution of this appeal turns primarily on the interpretation of various provisions of the Illinois Liquor Control Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 43) (the Act) and section 17 of the Bill of Rights of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, the discrimination prohibition. At issue is whether the civil rights provision of the Act (section 12b) and the discrimination prohibition of the Constitution apply to the sale of liquor by clubs.
The following considerations are relevant in construing the Act. The energetic and far-ranging emphasis in recent years upon…
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