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YASIN v. BYRNE

No. 82-2938.

121 Ill. App.3d 167 (1984)

459 N.E.2d 320

TAYSIR A. YASIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JANE BYRNE, Mayor of the City of Chicago, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Opinion filed January 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freeman, Atkins & Coleman, Ltd., of Chicago (John L. Gubbins and Eugene J. Schiltz, of counsel), for appellant.

James D. Montgomery, Acting Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Jerome A. Siegan and Maureen Kelly Ivory, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellees.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE STAMOS delivered the opinion of the court:

This action was brought by plaintiff Taysir A. Yasin, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel several officials of the city of Chicago to issue to him tax emblems for two electronic video games. The city had refused to issue emblems for the games on the ground that they were illegal gambling devices under section 28-2 of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par...

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