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CANNON v. EDGAR

No. 93-2968.

33 F.3d 880 (1994)

Jay CANNON, Thomas Carey, Stevie Powell, and Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James EDGAR, Governor of Illinois and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Peter Dowd, Robert E. Bloch, Linda Wyetzner, Dowd & Bloch, Chicago, IL, James B. Coppess, Washington, DC, Marsha S. Berzon (argued), Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Nathan Lewin (argued), Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellants.

Before BAUER, COFFEY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

In 1992, Illinois enacted the Illinois Burial Rights Act. Passed in response to a strike by a union of gravediggers, the Burial Rights Act requires, among other things, that cemeteries and unions agree on a pool of workers to perform interments for persons whose religious faith requires that their dead be buried within a day or two of death. A gravediggers' union, the Service Employees International Union, Local 106, AFL-CIO, union member Stevie...

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