{"id":5577,"date":"2015-10-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-10-20T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T02:06:38","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-they-denied-request-for-a-substitution-of-judge-as-a-matter-of-right-was-not-a-final-and-appealable-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-they-denied-request-for-a-substitution-of-judge-as-a-matter-of-right-was-not-a-final-and-appealable-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Rules That a Denied Request for a Substitution of Judge as a Matter of Right Was Not a Final and Appealable Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the majority opinion given in a substitution of judge denial and subsequent appeal, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the denial of a motion for substitution of judge for cause is not a final order. The court cited the case of In re Marriage of Nettleton, 348 Ill.App.3d 961 (2004). Instead the court stated that it is an interlocutory order that is appealable on review from a final order.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the HOB I Holding Corp. and the Eva Buziecki Trust appealed to the Illinois Appellate Court when its request for a substitution of judge as a matter of right under Section 2-1001(a)(2) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs5.asp?ActID=2017&amp;ChapterID=56\">Illinois Code of Civil Procedure<\/a> was denied. The moving parties relied on Rule 304(a) finding that there was no just reason to delay enforcement or appeal of that March 27, 2014 order denying the request for substitution of judge.<\/p>\n<p>The majority opinion \u2013 noting \u201cit is well-settled law that the mere inclusion of a Rule 304(a) finding in a non-final order does not make the order appealable under the Supreme Court rules and concluded that Rule 304(a) did not provide this court with jurisdiction because the March 27, 2014, order denying a substitution of judge did not \u2018become\u2019 a final order simply by including the statutory language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-they-denied-request-for-a-substitution-of-judge-as-a-matter-of-right-was-not-a-final-and-appealable-order\/#more-5577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the majority opinion given in a substitution of judge denial and subsequent appeal, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the denial of a motion for substitution of judge for cause is not a final order. The court cited the case of In re Marriage of Nettleton, 348 Ill.App.3d 961 (2004). 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