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JOHNSON v. EDGAR

Nos. 81019, 81249.

680 N.E.2d 1372 (1997)

176 Ill.2d 499

224 Ill.Dec. 1

Donald JOHNSON et al., Appellees, v. Jim EDGAR et al., Appellants. Irv LANGA, Appellee, v. Mary A. GADE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Ryan, Attorney General, Civil Appeals Div. and Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Asst. Attorney General, Chicago, for Jim Edgar, James E. Ryan, and Mary A. Gade.

Joel A. D'Alba, Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, Cohen & D'Alba, Chicago, for Donald Johnson.

Steven W. Wermcrantz, Springfield, John B. Simon, Jenner & Block, Chicago, and Andrew A. Jacobson, Springfield, for Illinois Petroleum Marketers.

Marvin A. Miller, Miller Faucher Chertow Cafferty & Wexler; and Lee J. Schwartz, Chicago, for William DeWoskin.

Michael J. Kasper and Peter McNamara, Chicago, amicus curiae Michael J. Madigan.

Courtney C. Nottage, Chicago, for amicus curiae Emil Jones, Jr.

Richard H. Donohue, Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smith, Chicago.

G. Edward Moorman, Alton, for Irv Langa.

Marvin A. Miller, Miller Faucher Chertow Cafferty & Wexler, Chicago, for William DeWoskin.

Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

At issue in these consolidated appeals is the constitutionality of Public Act 89-428, enacted by the Illinois General Assembly on December 13, 1995. The plaintiffs in each case challenged the Act as violative of the "single subject rule" contained in article IV, section 8(d), of the Illinois Constitution of 1970. The circuit court in each case ruled that the Act was unconstitutional on this ground and ordered that...

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