GENERAL MOTORS v. MOTOR VEHICLE REVIEW BD.

Nos. 101585, 101601.

862 N.E.2d 209 (2007)

224 Ill.2d 1

308 Ill.Dec. 611

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. The STATE of Illinois MOTOR VEHICLE REVIEW BOARD et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 8, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Gower, Charles R. Schmadeke, of Hinshaw & Culbertson, Springfield, and Jeffrey J. Jones, J. Todd Kennard, of Jones Day, Columbus, Ohio, for appellant General Motors Corporation.

William J. Harte, Ltd., Joseph E. Tighe, P.C., Chicago, for appellant Loren Buick, Inc.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, John P. Schmidt and Brett E. Legner, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellees Illinois Motor Vehicle Review Board and Terrence M. O'Brien.

Ira M. Levin, Jay S. Dobrutsky, of Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., and Richard M. Karr, of Gordon & Karr, Chicago, for appellees North Shore, Inc., doing business as Muller Pontiac/GMC Mazda, et al.

James R. Vogler, of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg, L.L.P., Chicago, Seth P. Waxman, Robert D. Cultice, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Nora Freeman Engstrom, of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Association of International Automobile Manufacturers.

Anthony Sanders, Chicago, Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, California, for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.

Dennis M. O'Keefe, Lake Forest, for amici curiae National Automobile Dealers Association, McLean, Virginia, Illinois Automobile Dealers Association, Springfield, and Chicago Automobile Trade Association, Oak Brook Terrace.


Chief Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

In this case, General Motors Corporation (GMC) sought to add two new automobile dealerships in the greater Chicago area: one on Chicago's far west side at Jacobs Twin Buick (Jacobs) and the other in Glenview, Illinois, at Loren Pontiac-Buick (Loren). Various existing GMC dealerships challenged the newly proposed dealerships by filing a protest with the State of Illinois Motor Vehicle Review Board...

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