JUDGE v. QUINN

No. 09 C 1231.

623 F.Supp.2d 933 (2009)

Gerald Anthony JUDGE and David Kindler, Plaintiffs, v. Pat QUINN, Governor of the State of Illinois and Roland W. Burris, U.S. Senator, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

April 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Howard Geoghegan, Michael Paul Persoon, Despres Schwartz & Geoghegan, Martin Jay Oberman, Attorney at Law, Robert R. Cohen, Scott Jay Frankel, Frankel & Cohen, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Thomas A. Ioppolo, Alice Elizabeth Keane, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Peter Chadwell Koch, Office of The Attorney General, Philip Stephens Holloway, Gonzalez, Saggio And Harlan, L.L.C., Timothy W. Wright, III, Golan & Christie LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN F. GRADY, District Judge.

Before the court are defendants' motions to dismiss the complaint and plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. We grant defendants' motions and deny plaintiffs' motion for the reasons explained below.

BACKGROUND

The facts alleged in plaintiffs' complaint, which we accept as true for the purposes of defendants' motions, are mostly matters of public record. On November...

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