HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC. v. SOMMERVILLE

No. 2-19-0362.

186 N.E.3d 67 (2021)

2021 IL App (2d) 190362

HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC., Petitioner, v. Meggan SOMMERVILLE and the Human Rights Commission, Respondents.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

Opinion filed August 13, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitman H. Brisky and Terry S. Lu , of Mauck & Baker, LLC, of Chicago, for petitioner.

Jacob Meister , of Jacob Meister & Associates, of Chicago, for respondent Meggan Sommerville.

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Chicago ( Jane Elinor Notz , Solicitor General, and Evan Siegel and Maura Forde O'Meara , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for other respondent.

Camilla B. Taylor and Kara N. Ingelhart , of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., of Chicago, Sasha J. Buchert (pro hac vice) and Diane Flynn (pro hac vice), of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., of Washington D.C., Avatara A. Smith-Carrington (pro hac vice), of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., of Dallas, Texas, Ethan Rice (pro hac vice), of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., of New York, New York, and Gregory R. Nevins (pro hac vice), of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, for amici curiae Lambda Legal Defense & Fund, Inc., and Equality Illinois.

John Knight , Ghirlandi Guidetti , Carolyn Wald , Ameri Klafeta , and Emily Werth , of Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., and Terra Reynolds , Nicholas J. Siciliano , Renatta A. Gorski , and Edwin D. Abundis , of Latham & Watkins, LLP, both of Chicago, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois et al.


OPINION

¶ 1 This appeal raises an issue of first impression in Illinois: whether an employer violates the Illinois Human Rights Act (Act) (775 ILCS 5/1-101 et seq. (West 2010)) by denying a transgender woman the use of the women's bathroom. The Human Rights...

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