MITCHELL v. CLAYTON

No. 92-3359.

995 F.2d 772 (1993)

Joseph M. MITCHELL, Julie Duffy, William Dunbar, Pat Brown, Gerald Pam, Marilyn Wiel, Kathleen Meierotto, Ruby Woodley, Earl Woodley and Guy Guilbert, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gary L. CLAYTON, Stephen F. Selcke, Robert Behmer, M.D., David Fox, Lawrence L. Hirsch, M.D., Larry S. Patton, D.O., Warren Staley, M.D., Paul Tullio, D.C., and Department of Professional Regulation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Hourigan (argued), Bloomington, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jennifer A. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before FLAUM and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

A group of Illinois acupuncturists and their prospective patients brought this suit challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Medical Practice Act of 1987 ("MPA"). The district court concluded that the MPA did not violate the due process or the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and dismissed the plaintiffs' case for failure to state a claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Relying on Maguire...

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