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SCHLESSINGER v. OLSEN

No. 54227.

86 Ill.2d 314 (1981)

427 N.E.2d 122

SHIRLEY SCHLESSINGER et al., Appellees, v. SIDNEY R. OLSEN, Recorder of Deeds, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Paul P. Biebel, Jr., Deputy State's Attorney, and Stuart D. Gordon and James F. Henry, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellants.

Bilandic, Heistein, Richman, Hauslinger & Young, Ltd., of Chicago (Harry A. Young, Jr., of counsel), for appellees.

Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, of Chicago (Duane C. Quaini, William T. Barker, Jeffrey Lennard, and William G. Crimmins, of counsel), for amici curiae National Association of Independent Insurers and the American Insurance Association.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed; cause remanded.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

On September 29, 1978, the plaintiffs, Shirley Schlessinger and Portia Kern, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County challenging the constitutionality of an amended version of the Real Estate Transfer Tax Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1978 Supp., ch. 120, par. 1003). This court had previously declared unconstitutional an earlier...

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