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DOUGLAS v. ARLINGTON PARK RACECOURSE, LLC

No. 1-16-2962.

2018 IL App (1st) 162962

RENE DOUGLAS and NATALIA DOUGLAS, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ARLINGTON PARK RACECOURSE, LLC, and CHURCHILL DOWNS, INC., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Filed June 29, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara I. Michaelides , Paula M. Carstensen , and Mark J. Sobczak , of Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP, of Chicago, for appellants.

Thomas Siracusa , of Power Rodgers & Smith LLP, of Chicago, for appellees.

Justice Gordon dissented, with opinion.

OPINION

¶ 1 This appeal primarily revolves around a single question: is the sole proximate cause theory and jury instruction available in a negligence action if a defendant argues more than one nonparty actor was the sole proximate cause of plaintiff's injury?

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