Wood River attorney Thomas Maag filed a lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of the state’s Firearms Owners Identification (FOID) card statute, and he urged the court not to transfer the case in accordance with a new law signed last month by Gov. J.B. Pritzker which now requires such cases to be litigated in either Chicago or Springfield.
(The Center Square) – A new law limiting where citizens can bring some legal actions against the state to Sangamon or Cook counties already faces a legal challenge. The attorney who filed the case in Madison County dares the Illinois A.