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NATIONAL PAINT & COATINGS ASS'N v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 92 C 4023.

835 F.Supp. 421 (1993)

NATIONAL PAINT & COATINGS ASSOCIATION; Rust-Oleum Corporation, an Illinois corporation; the Sherwin-Williams Company, an Ohio corporation; Ace Hardware Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Tru-Test Manufacturing Company, a Delaware corporation; FMA Inc., d/b/a Jim's Ace Hardware, an Illinois corporation; W.C. Schauer Hardware Center, Inc., an Illinois corporation; Smiley Ace Hardware, Inc., an Illinois corporation, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation, Defendant.

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

September 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven P. Handler, Harvey M. Sheldon, Bruce H. Weitzman, Paul Andre Katz, Edward C. Stewart, Victoria Lynn Petrow, McDermott, Will & Emery, P.C., Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs except Sherwin-Williams Co.

Thomas G. Dent, Jeryl L. Olson, Peter C. Woodford, Therese G. Pinter, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, IL, for Sherwin-Williams Co.

Susan R. Lichtenstein, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Ronald D. Jolly, Nancie M. Campbell, Gail A. Niemann, City of Chicago, Law Dept., Corp. Counsel, Chicago, IL, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

In response to the growing problem of graffiti in Chicago, on May 20, 1992, the City Counsel of the City of Chicago enacted four ordinances, Municipal Code §§ 4-132-150, 8-4-130, 8-16-095 and 8-16-096, regulating the sale and possession of paint in spray cans ("spray paint") and markers containing a non-water soluble fluid and having a writing surface of 3/8 of an inch or greater ("large...

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