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CORCORAN-HAKALA v. DOWD

No. 2-05-0100.

840 N.E.2d 286 (2005)

362 Ill. App.3d 523

298 Ill.Dec. 516

Mary B. CORCORAN-HAKALA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph P. DOWD, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Cohn, Erwin Cohn, Cohn & Cohn, Chicago, for Mary B. Corcoran-Hakala.

Philip J. McGuire, Law Offices of Philip J. McGuire, Chicago, for Joseph P. Dowd.

Justice HUTCHINSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Mary B. Corcoran-Hakala, appeals the dismissal of her complaint against defendant, attorney Joseph P. Dowd. She argues that the trial court erred in finding her suit barred by res judicata. Because her complaint grows out of the same operative facts as a prior proceeding between the parties, and because she could have raised all of her claims in that earlier litigation, we affirm.

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