Roth v. St. Elizabeth's Hospital

JUSTICE LEWIS,

specially concurring:

I agree wholeheartedly with Judge Chapman’s reasoning and interpretation of Supreme Court Rule 224 (134 Ill. 2d R. 224). There are a few matters that I believe should be discussed in a specially concurring opinion that, if included in the official majority opinion, would dilute the force of the majority opinion and which may be unnecessary to interpret the scope and intent of Rule 224.

We could have ruled on the facts of the case without going further in construing Rule 224. Clearly, the trial judge should have stopped the proceeding once petitioner’s counsel…