Within hours of receiving an additional 30 days from the judge to explore settlement of the case, the city of Elgin, Ill., filed its appeal of the court’s Aug. 8 injunction order. The court’s decision had called Elgin’s “effort to curtail private entities from providing free and valuable services to its young women ... ill-advised” and permanently enjoined Elgin’s code restrictions, which had been used to halt the Life Center’s (TLC) mobile pregnancy services.
In March, the court had found that the young women of Elgin were likely to suffer irreparable harm if Elgin’s zoning restrictions were applied to deny them access to the free services and support TLC’s mobile ultrasound facility provides. The city then filed a motion to dismiss the case, but the city’s motion was denied in its entirety on Aug. 8. Instead, the court permanently enjoined Elgin from enforcing its “temporary land use” law, which it had used to shut down the mobile ultrasound facility. More PTG
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