Buckholtz v. MacNeal Hospital

This appeal is brought by plaintiff Natalie Buckholtz. It flows from her refusal to pay Dr. Ava Adams-Morris a court-ordered deposition fee of $375 in an underlying wrongful death suit. After Francis Timons, plaintiffs attorney, requested that the trial court find him in contempt for plaintiffs failure to pay the fee, it did so and fined him $10 for each day the deposition fee remained unpaid. On appeal, plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in finding that Dr. Adams-Morris was entitled to a deposition fee and that the $300-per-hour fee it set was unreasonable. Plaintiff and Timons…