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A divided Illinois appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order against the state’s recently enacted assault weapons ban.
That TRO was issued by a judge in Effingham County, and applied to several hundred plaintiffs who had signed on to that suit from attorney Thomas DeVore.
The appeals court rejected the Effingham County judge’s ruling on three of the counts in the suit, but upheld the TRO on the fourth count – which found the ban violated the equal protection laws because it created numerous exemptions to the ban.
The decision will be appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, and several other lawsuits against the ban continue to move through state and federal courts.
