MORR-FITZ, INC., et al., Appellants,
v.
Rod R. BLAGOJEVICH, Governor, State of Illinois, et al., Appellees.
Supreme Court of Illinois.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 18, 2008.
December 18, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Paul P. Daley, Jared C. Miller, Boston, Massachusetts, Andrew C. Varcoe, Mark L. Rienzi, Anthony M. Deardurff, and Heath A. Brooks, Washington, D.C., Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP, Philip J. Rarick, Granite City, and Francis J. Manion, New Hope, Kentucky, for appellants.
Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, Laura Wunder, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellees.
Mailee R. Smith, Clarke D. Forsythe, Chicago, for amici curiae American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists et al.
Richard C. Baker, of Mauck & Baker, LLC, Chicago, and Kimberly A.R. Daniels, of the Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for amici curiae Illinois Pharmacists Association and the American Pharmacists Association.
Steven H. Adan, M. Casey Mattox, Springfield, Virginia, Kevin A. Hall, James K. Lehman, Lee E. Dixon, Jared Q. Libet and Jay T. Thompson, of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, South Carolina, for amici curiae Christian Legal Society and Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International.
Roger Pascal, Christina A. Andronache, of Schiff Hardin LLP, Lorie A. Chaiten, Leah Bartelt, Chicago, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
Supreme Court of Illinois.
OPINION
Justice THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:
Plaintiffs—two licensed pharmacists and three corporations that own and operate pharmacies in Illinois—brought a declaratory judgment action in the circuit court of Sangamon County against various Illinois public officials and the State Board of Pharmacy, seeking to invalidate an administrative rule that forces pharmacies to dispense Plan B contraception (also known as...
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