Supreme Court of Illinois

In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that section 11.2(a) of the Riverboat Gambling Act violates the Illinois Constitution's special legislation clause, complaint is dismissed for failure to state a cause of action where section 11.2(a) is rationally related to a legitimate state interest and does not circumvent the Board's regulatory authority.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2005
• Published 09/22/2005

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrance A. Norton, of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P., Jay E. Stewart, Chicago, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Mary E. Welsh, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellees The Illinois Gaming Board et al., William R. Quinlan, James R. Carroll, James A. Niewiara, Nicholas G. Grapsas, of Quinlan & Carroll, Ltd., Chicago, for appellee Village of Rosemount., Joseph U. Schorer, Robert D. Snow, Jr., Scott M. Edenfield, Chicago, Robert R. Gasaway, Ashley C. Parrish and Sookyoung Shin, Washington D.C., all of Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., for intervenor-appellee Emerald Casino, Inc., Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Harold L. Kaplan, Patrick S. Coffey, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, of Gardner, Carton & Douglas, L.L.P., Chicago, for intervenor-appellee Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Emerald Casino, Inc.