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IN RE ESTATE OF J.M.

No. 1-95-3171.

678 N.E.2d 15 (1997)

287 Ill. App.3d 110

222 Ill.Dec. 608

In re the ESTATE OF J.M., An Alleged Disabled Person (Legal Advocacy Service, Counsel for J.M., Sanctions Petitioner-Appellant v. Law Offices of Nye and Associates, Ltd., Sanctions Respondent-Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

March 5, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Lower, Director of Legal Advocacy Service, Chicago (Laurel Whitehouse, Staff Attorney, and William E. Coffin, Managing Attorney), for Appellant.

Terrie A. Rymer, Chicago, for Appellant.

Sandra G. Nye, Jonathan D. Nye, and Eugenia Miller Gillespie, Nye and Associates, Ltd., of Chicago, for Appellee.

Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

We review a trial court order that denied a petition for sanctions under Supreme Court Rule 137. Legal Advocacy Service (LAS) filed the petition against the lawyers who represented the father of a person alleged to be disabled under section 11a-2 of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/11a-2 (West 1994)). We affirm.

On May 27, 1994, J.M., 18 years old, was admitted...

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