Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Mortgage Foreclosure
(Supplemental opinion filed 11/30/16.) Appellate court imposed sanctions of $30,093 on Defendants-Appellants, and the law firm that represented them on appeal. Defendants had argued on appeal that agreed order of foreclosure has no legal effect because mortgage itself was void due to an alteration to the mortgage. This argument was fundamentally deficient: mortgage was not altered, but as signed, expressly contemplated that full legal description would be added later; and argument failed to address distinction between void and voidable; and argument ignored fact that Defendants had already settled case and accepted a $10,000 payment.(SCHMIDT, concurring; CARTER, specially concurring.)