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IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER AT SIOUX CITY

No. 1-93-0241.

631 N.E.2d 1302 (1994)

259 Ill. App.3d 231

197 Ill.Dec. 843

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER AT SIOUX CITY, IOWA ON JULY 19, 1989. (Joseph Trombello, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. United Airlines, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

March 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adler, Kaplan & Begy, Chicago (John Adler, Michael McQuillen and Richard Walker, of counsel), for United Airlines defendant-appellant.

Sidley & Austin, Chicago (H. Blair White, Charles Douglas, Sara Gourley, Lory Barsdate and Sheila Sundvall, of counsel), for General Elec. Co. defendant-appellant.

Rothschild, Barry & Myers, Chicago (Norman Barry and Daniel Cummings, of counsel), Bryan Cave, Los Angeles (Steven Hogan, of counsel), for McDonnell Douglas Corporation, defendant-appellant.

Gardere & Wynne, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Martin Rose, Fred Meier and Cynthia Hollingsworth, John Scott Hoff, Chicago, for RMI Titanium Co. defendant-appellant.

Merlo, Chapello & Douglas, Ltd., Chicago (Alan Brinkmeier and Elizabeth Caprini, of counsel), for Titanium Metals Corp. defendant-appellant.

Pope, Ballard, Shepard & Fowle, Ltd., Chicago (Edmund Sinnott and Michael West, of counsel), for Aluminum Co. of America defendant-appellant.

Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., Chicago (Philip Corboy, Robert Clifford and David Novoselsky, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Justice HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants appeal from a final order granting plaintiffs' motion for voluntary dismissal of twenty-three consolidated cases arising from the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 (Flight 232) at Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. The issues raised here are whether (1) the circuit court erred in granting plaintiffs' motion for voluntary dismissal; (2) the voluntary dismissal statute as applied here violated constitutional...

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