Cukier v. American Medical Ass'n

PRESIDING JUSTICE MURRAY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 224, the petitioner, Jean Cukier, M.D. (Cukier), filed a petition for discovery before suit (see 134 111. 2d R. 224), seeking to identify those persons or entities who were responsible for alleged defamatory statements made to the respondents claiming that petitioner had a financial interest in the publication of an article he submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).* 1

The relevant facts are as follows. Cukier and his co-authors submitted a proposed scientific journal…