Supreme Court of Illinois

In a declaratory judgment action brought by two pharmacists and three corporations 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, dismissal of the action is reversed where, contrary to the ruling below, the action was ripe for judicial review and should not have been dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2008
• Published 12/19/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• 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., 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.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, Laura Wunder, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellees.