DOE v. GLEICHER

No. 1-08-2724.

911 N.E.2d 532 (2009)

Jane DOE, John Doe, and their four minor children: Doe In Vitro Fertilization Child Number One, Doe In Vitro Fertilization Child Number Two, Doe Child Number Three and Doe Child Number Four, by Jane Doe, parent, guardian, and next friend, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Norbert GLEICHER, individually and as chairman, officer, and president of The Center for Human Reproduction and American Infertility Group of Illinois, Inc., Yury Verlinsky, individually and as director and chief executive officer of Reproductive Genetics Institute, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 5, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorna E. Propes, and David R. Nordwall, Propes & Kaveny LLC; Lori S. Klingman, Law Office of Lori S. Klingman; and Frank W. Pirruccello, Frank W. Pirruccello, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Appellants.

Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC (Stetson F. Atwood, Karen Kies DeGrand, and Caitlin M. O'Connor, of Counsel), Chicago, IL, for Appellees Yury Verlinsky, PH.D. and Reproductive Genetics Institute.

Cassiday Schade LLP (James W. Kopriva, Anthony J. Longo, and Julie A. Teuscher, of Counsel), Chicago, IL, for Appellees Norbert Gleicher, M.D. and American Infertility Group of Illinois, Inc.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal of a circuit court dismissal we tread warily through a procedural thicket. Plaintiffs Jane Doe and John Doe, individually and on behalf of their four minor children, appeal the trial court's order dismissing their complaint, based on the doctrine of res judicata. Plaintiffs contend their claims were not barred by res judicata because requisite elements were not satisfied. We affirm.<...

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