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PEOPLE EX REL. RYAN v. WORLD CHURCH

No. 89780.

760 N.E.2d 953 (2001)

198 Ill.2d 115

260 Ill.Dec. 180

The PEOPLE ex rel. James E. RYAN, Attorney General of Illinois, Appellant, v. The WORLD CHURCH OF THE CREATOR et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

November 21, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and Mary E. Welsh, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Glenn Greenwald, of Greenwald, Christoph & Holland, P.C., New York, New York (Gary L. Shilts, Naperville, of counsel), for appellees.

Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case is whether the Solicitation for Charity Act (Solicitation Act) (225 ILCS 460/0.01 through 23 (West 1998)) is unconstitutionally vague on its face, as violative of the first and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution (U.S. Const., amends. I, XIV). The circuit court of Cook County held the statute unconstitutional and dismissed the Attorney General's complaint against defendants...

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