Bogseth v. Emanuel

How courts have described this case

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• purpose of statute “is not to provide parties with a means of engaging in ‘fishing expeditions’ in search of someone to sue or a theory on which to base a claim”
• legislative history of section 2-402 shows purpose to allow plaintiff to conduct discovery “before he has to make a decision on whom to sue” (emphasis added and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).