After the Federal Appeals Court in Zbaraz v. Hartigan dissolved the decades-old injunction enjoining Illinois' parental notice law, the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project filed this case in state court in October 2009, seeking a state court injunction against the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. The lawsuit cites specific protections of privacy, due process, equal protection and gender equality guaranteed by specific provisions of the Illinois Constitution. The ACLU of Illinois contends that these state constitutional provisions are more expansive than protections under the federal constitution. In November, as the Parental Notice law was set to go into effect, the court issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the law. In response, the State of Illinois filed a combined motion to dismiss and for judgment on the pleadings. In March 2010, the court granted the State's motion to dismiss, but ordered that injunction barring the enforcement of the Act remain in place through our appeal to the First District Court of Appeals. We filed our notion of appeal in May 2010. The Thomas Moore Society filed a notice of appeal from the denial of intervention and from the Court's refusal to consider their request to vacate the stay pending an appeal the same month.