Puglisi v. Hansford

This is an interlocutory appeal (107 Ill. 2d R. 308) from a trial court order vacating a default judgment on its own motion and setting the cause for a jury trial. Three questions have been certified for interlocutory appeal. They are:

“(a) Do the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, Amendments] VII and XIV, and the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Illinois 1970, Article I, Section 13, prevent the entry of the default judgment against a litigant who makes a timely jury demand but otherwise fails to appear personally or by her legal representative when notice by…