Johnakin v. Pennsylvania

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• holding that district court could properly dismiss conspiracy count since damages were already covered in underlying tort
• finding that certain video game features are “as a practical matter indispensable, or at least standard, in the treatment of a given [idea]”.
• creating new Illinois torts is something for the Illinois courts or Illinois legislature to do rather than the federal courts
• citing, Wainright Securities, Inc. v. Wall Street Transcript Corp., 558 F.2d 91, 94 (2d Cir.1977)
• discussing the objectives of the Sunday closing law and quoting section 51:194 C
• describing scenes a faire as “incidents, characters or settings which are as a practical matter indispensable, or at least standard ... in the treatment of a given topic”

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