BALCIUNAS v. DUFF

No. 56355.

94 Ill.2d 176 (1983)

446 N.E.2d 242

RUTHIE L. BALCIUNAS, Plaintiff, v. BRIAN B. DUFF, Judge, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Brien, Carey, Scheuneman & O'Rourke, Ltd., of Chicago (John J. O'Toole, Tom Scheuneman, Peter Petrakis, and Milton M. Blumenthal & Associates, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Jane Clark Casey, Deputy State's Attorney, of Chicago, for defendant Brian B. Duff.

Hugh C. Griffin, William J. White, and R.R. McMahan, of Chicago (Lord, Bissell & Brook, of Chicago, and Otis M. Smith, of Detroit, Michigan, of counsel), for defendant General Motors Corporation.


Writ denied; supervisory order entered.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an original action, in which we allowed Ruthie L. Balciunas (plaintiff) leave to file a complaint for the issuance of a writ of mandamus (87 Ill.2d R. 381). That complaint seeks to compel Brian B. Duff, a judge of the circuit court of Cook County, to expunge certain pretrial discovery orders entered in the case of Balciunas v. General Motors Corporation...

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