Illinois Supreme Court Rule 219 and Exclusion of Witnesses
By Mark Benfield & Kathryn Johnson-Monfort
Tort Law,
June 2024
An overview of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 219(c), which allows the court to impose sanctions for failure to comply with court rules — including barring a witness from testifying.
Res Judicata and Voluntary Dismissal
By Mark Benfield & Sam Brolley
Tort Law,
February 2022
An examination of the application of res judicata when one of the claims in a cause of action is dismissed with prejudice and others are subsequently dismissed without prejudice.
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