Century Road Builders, Inc. v. City of Palos Heights

PRESIDING JUSTICE HOFFMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Century Road Builders, Inc. (Century), and its attorneys, Steinberg, Burtker & Grossman, Ltd. (Steinberg), appeal from an order of the circuit court which, as amended, awarded $6,000 in Supreme Court Rule 137 (134 Ill. 2d R. 137) sanctions against them and entered judgment on the award. Century and Steinberg contend that the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing on the allegations contained in the defendants’ petitions for sanctions, and further erred in finding that Century prosecuted this…