Harris v. Mercy Hospital

PRESIDING JUSTICE McNULTY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Jennifer Harris was ordered by the trial court to submit to a blood test pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 215. (87 Ill. 2d R. 215.) Plaintiffs counsel Ann Herbert refused to submit the plaintiff to the blood test and counsel was therefore held in contempt of court. It is from this contempt order that counsel appeals.

Lynn Harris as mother and next friend of the minor plaintiff, Jennifer Harris, brought this lawsuit alleging that Dr. Ricardo V. Enriquez, Mercy Hospital and other physicians were negligent in their care…