CHICAGO TRUST CO. v. COOK COUNTY HOSP.

No. 1-97-3233.

698 N.E.2d 641 (1998)

298 Ill. App.3d 396

232 Ill.Dec. 550

CHICAGO TRUST COMPANY, as guardian of the Estate of Donald Macon, a disabled person, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL, a municipal corporation; County of Cook, a municipal corporation and body political; Board of Commissioners of Cook County, a municipal corporation; Puritan-Bennett Corporation, a foreign corporation; and Hudson Respiratory Care, Inc., a foreign corporation, Defendants (Office of the State's Attorney of Cook County, Contemnor-Appellant.)

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

July 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Atty. of Cook County; Patricia M. Shymanski, Deputy State's Atty.; Thomas M. Burnham, Mary P. Tobin, Patrick M. Blanchard, Asst. State's Attys., of counsel, for contemnor-appellant.

Donald J. Nolan, William J. Jovan, Law Offices of Donald J. Nolan, Chicago, for plaintiff-appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In this case we review Cook County Hospital's claims that certain of its documents are confidential and that the trial court should not have ordered the Hospital to produce them during discovery in a civil case.

Cook County Hospital (the Hospital) appeals the trial court's July 25, 1997, order. The court found the Hospital in contempt for refusing to produce certain documents requested in discovery by Chicago...

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