McDonald et al v. City of Chicago et al

Filing 50

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 12/4/2008:Mailed notice(srn, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION OTIS McDONALD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

No.

08 C 3645

MEMORANDUM ORDER This is one of three cases on this Court's calendar that seek to extrapolate from the Supreme Court's decision in Dist. of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008) to invalidate municipal ordinances that ban handguns--indeed, plaintiffs' counsel brought this lawsuit only one day after Heller came down (obviously having anticipated the decision reached by the five-Justice majority). This case, like National Rifle Association of

America, Inc. v. City of Chicago, 08 C 3697, attacks Chicago's handgun ordinance, while National Rifle Association of America, Inc. v. Village of Oak Park, 08 C 3696 (brought by the same

plaintiffs' counsel who are handling 08 C 3697) challenges the Oak Park ordinance. Today this Court has issued an opinion that rejects, as contrary to jurisprudential principles, the invitation by counsel in the other two cases to "overrule" Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove, 695 F.2d 261 (7th Cir. 1982). Quilici is an on-all-fours

decision by our Court of Appeals that takes the opposite position

from that now pressed by plaintiffs in all three cases before this Court. There is no need to repeat what is said in that opinion, for it might well have been written for this case too. Instead this

memorandum order simply denies (1) plaintiffs' two pending motions--their Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkt. 32) and their Motion To Narrow Legal Issues (Dkt. 43)--and (2) sets this case as well for a status hearing at 8:45 a.m. December 9, 2008.

________________________________________ Milton I. Shadur Senior United States District Judge Date: December 4, 2008

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