Leonardi v. Loyola University of Chicago

How later courts described this case

• explaining that the statement of witness A testifying that “ ‘B told me that event X occurred’ ” would be inadmissible if offered to prove that event X occurred but would be admissible if offered to prove that B said event X occurred
• stating that the determination of the scope and extent of cross-examination of an expert witness rests in the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion
• noting that a reviewing court “can sustain the decision of a lower court on any grounds which are called for by the record, regardless of whether the lower court relied on those grounds and regardless of whether the lower court’s reasoning was correct”
• holding that a reviewing court may affirm on any grounds in the record, regardless of whether the trial court relied on the same grounds or whether its reasoning was correct

Written by the judges who cited it.