Opinion

In Re Blank

  • 145 Ill. 2d 534
  • 165 Ill. Dec. 709
  • 585 N.E.2d 105
  • 1991 Ill. LEXIS 119
Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Filed
Nov 27, 1991
Status
Published
Author
Bilandic
On the bench
Clark, Bilandic, Freeman
Cited by
15 cases

practice of answering interrogatories with vague, general responses and attaching to them 23 pages of unverified, unidentified documents not specifically referred to or described in answer is not an acceptable substitute for answers required by court rule

How later courts described this case

  • practice of answering interrogatories with vague, general responses and attaching to them 23 pages of unverified, unidentified documents not specifically referred to or described in answer is not an acceptable substitute for answers required by court rule
  • 23 pages of unidentified documents was an improper discovery response

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

JUSTICE BILANDIC, concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I concur that the respondent should be disciplined for the misconduct found by the Hearing and Review Boards. However, because I believe the discipline recommended by both Boards, two years’ suspension, should be imposed, I dissent from that portion of the court’s judgment disbarring the respondent from the practice of law.

JUSTICE FREEMAN joins in this partial concurrence and partial dissent.

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