The First District appeals court recently examined the collateral attack doctrine – which immunizes a court’s judgment from challenge in a separate judicial proceeding – in a case flowing from failed settlement talks. The defendants in Tielke v. Auto Owners Insurance Company, 2019 IL App(1st) 181756, four years after a 2013 personal injury suit was filed, made an …
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Fee Petition Doesn’t Extend Time to Appeal Trial Verdict In Commercial Lease Spat
In Naperville South Commons, LLC v. Nguyen, 2013 IL App (3d) 120382-U, a Will County shopping center landlord filed its notice of appeal too late and so a money judgment for the tenant stands. The case involves a multi-year shopping center lease for tenant’s operation of nail salon. Several months into the lease’s fourth year, …
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