Fritz v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[t]he allegation that Johnston did in fact file a false report with the State Police satisfies the third element, the actual commission of an overt unlawful act by one of the conspirators.”
• applying the source-of-the-duty test to a claim for civil conspiracy based upon the commission of a crime and other acts committed in furtherance of that crime
• observing it is difficult to establish the two parties acted in concert to commit the unlawful act in a civil-conspiracy action
• observing it is difficult to establish the two parties acted in concert to commit the unlawful act in a civil-conspiracy action
• holding Illinois’s sovereign immunity was not applicable where plaintiff alleged the criminal offense of disorderly conduct because the duty not to make false accusations of criminal conduct is imposed by the Criminal Code of 1961 (720 ILCS 5/1-1 et seq. (West 1998)
• “sovereign immunity is designed to protect the state’s autonomy of action and to preserve state funds”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).