Roberson v. Liu

The question before this court, in what appears to be a tangential discovery dispute in a medical malpractice action, in reality involves the integrity of the entire discovery process in the State of Illinois, the applicability of the discovery rules as rules of procedure and not mere advisory suggestions for conduct in the development of a cause of action prior to trial, and the ability of the judiciary to make these rules of discovery practical and effective in the context of intensely adversarial litigation. In this cause, a trial judge was faced with a violation of the spirit and intent…