SOAP AND DETERGENT ASSOCIATION v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 71 C 1054.

357 F.Supp. 44 (1973)

The SOAP AND DETERGENT ASSOCIATION, a Delaware corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation of Illinois, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Berghoff, Jr., James E. Hastings, Chadwell, Keck, Kayser & Ruggles, Chicago, Ill., David Machniec, Pierson, Ball & Dowd, Allan J. Topol, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Richard L. Curry, Corp. Counsel, Henry F. Weber, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


DECISION and ORDER

McMILLEN, District Judge.

This case came on for trial on a declaratory action brought by an association and four of its members engaged in manufacturing detergents and phosphates. Plaintiffs seek to set aside an ordinance of the City of Chicago which since June 30, 1972 has made it a criminal offense to sell detergents containing phosphorus within the City. Phosphorus is the element from which phosphates are made and phosphates are a principal...

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