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SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN v. DEPT. OF PUB. HEALTH

No. 98712.

844 N.E.2d 1 (2006)

218 Ill.2d 390

300 Ill.Dec. 329

SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, Appellee, v. The ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

February 2, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Jerald S. Post, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Donald M. Craven, Springfield, for appellee.

Richard J. O'Brien, Eric S. Mattson and Jamie L. Secord, of Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Chicago, for amici curiae Associated Press et al.

OPINION

Justice McMORROW delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Plaintiff, the Southern Illinoisan newspaper, requested the Illinois Department of Public Health (Department) to release from the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances Registry (Cancer Registry) certain data about incidents of neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. The Department denied plaintiff's request. Thereafter, plaintiff filed a complaint in the circuit court...

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