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State Courts -
Illinois - October 12 - October 13, 2006
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Jones v. Rallos, No. 1-04-2979,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT, FOURTH DIVISION, October 12, 2006, Decided , October 12, 2006, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Finding for patient in medical malpractice action was reversed because the trial court committed reversible error by failing to bar questions about the doctor failing the board-certified examination for internal medicine; since the doctor did not testify as an expert, the doctor's failure to pass the board-certified examination was not relevant.
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Poilevey v. Spivack, No. 1-05-2275,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT, FOURTH DIVISION, October 12, 2006, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Decision of atrial court order that a judgment debtor pay a principal amount, prejudgment interest, fees, and costs under a foreign judgment, and postjudgment attorney fees was affirmed as the doctrines of merger and res judicata did not preclude the award of postjudgment attorney fees, and the debtor waived his lack of notice and hearing argument.
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People v. Clifton R. (In re Clifton R.), No. 1-05-2705,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT, FIFTH DIVISION, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: 730 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/5-4-3, requiring respondent to submit swab saliva samples for DNA purposes, did not violate search and seizure rights of respondent, juvenile who was found to have committed drug offense. Appellate court was bound by state high court decisions providing that § 5-4-3 was constitutional as applied to adults and juveniles.
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People v. James, No. 1-05-1813,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT, FIFTH DIVISION, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Where defendant, for retrial, hired codefendant's attorneys after codefendant was acquitted, disqualification of attorneys because it was possible that they would be called as impeachment witnesses against codefendant was improper. There was no evidence of attorneys' potential testimony, and any such testimony was likely inadmissible hearsay.
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Schmitz v. Binette, No. 1-05-2710,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIRST DISTRICT, SIXTH DIVISION, October 13, 2006, Decided , October 13, 2006, Opinion Filed
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Overview: In medical malpractice case, patient's spouse should have been permitted to question defense expert about his deposition admission that he commonly performed test that he claimed in trial testimony was not required by standard of care. As there was conflicting expert testimony, this information was relevant to determine expert credibility.
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Smith, Allen, Mendenhall, Emons & Selby v. Thomson Corp., NO. 5-05-0029,
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, FIFTH DISTRICT, October 13, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Law firm, which was the class representative of a class action lawsuit alleging violation of Illinois' and Minnesota's consumer fraud statutes, failed to establish that it had suffered any damages at all as a result of defendants' practice of adding a shipping and handling charge to monthly billing statements without identifying the added charge.
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