Gordon v. Nasr

PRESIDING JUSTICE MURRAY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal by plaintiffs Rita and Vincent Gordon concerns various orders entered in a medical malpractice case by two trial courts. The orders barred testimony by plaintiffs’ medical experts, granted summary judgment in favor of defendants, and denied plaintiffs’ motion to reconsider the previously entered orders. The following facts are pertinent to this appeal.

In 1979, Rita Gordon received certain care and treatment at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute where she was initially diagnosed as having acute schizophrenia.…