Supreme Court of Illinois

The Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995 does not violate due process by taxing one group to benefit another, and does not violate the uniformity clause of the Illinois Constitution as it bears a reasonable relationship to the objective of the Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2003
• Published 04/29/2003

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stanley R. Kaminski, of Duane Morris L.L.C., John A. Biek, Melissa A. Connell, of McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel B. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, A. Benjamin Goldgar, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellees.