{"id":6716,"date":"2018-01-17T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2018-01-15T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:17:39","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-rules-substitution-judge-statute-applies-plaintiffs-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-substitution-judge-statute-applies-plaintiffs-defendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Rules That Substitution of Judge Statute Applies to Plaintiffs and Defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal injury lawsuit filed in Cook County concerning the pedestrian-vehicle collision that severely injured 2-year-old Angela Williams, the attorney representing Williams nonsuited the lawsuit in order to refile it with a jury demand. The plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the second amended complaint in April 2017 before refiling it days later, this time with a jury demand.<\/p>\n<p>The same motion judge was assigned to the case. A month later, the defendant, Gregory Leonard, moved to substitute the motion court judge. The judge denied Leonard\u2019s motion based on his interpretation of the Illinois Supreme Court case of <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/illinois\/supreme-court\/2015\/119000.html\"><em>Bowman v. Ottney<\/em>, 2015 IL 119000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because the motion court judge thought that if he was wrong, it would hamper the progress of this case, he allowed the parties to file an interlocutory appeal. The issue on appeal was interpretation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs4.asp?ActID=2017&amp;ChapterID=56&amp;SeqStart=10200000&amp;SeqEnd=11500000\">Section 2-1001(a)(2) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure<\/a>, which gives the parties the right to substitute judges once without cause before substantive case issues had been decided.\u00a0 The Illinois Supreme Court in <em>Bowman<\/em>, held that the provision should not be used for \u201cjudge shopping\u201d by plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-substitution-judge-statute-applies-plaintiffs-defendants\/#more-6716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal injury lawsuit filed in Cook County concerning the pedestrian-vehicle collision that severely injured 2-year-old Angela Williams, the attorney representing Williams nonsuited the lawsuit in order to refile it with a jury demand. 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