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Illinois Supreme Court· 10/22/1992

Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority

Citations

  • 605 N.E.2d 493
  • 152 Ill. 2d 432
  • 178 Ill. Dec. 699
  • 1992 Ill. LEXIS 161

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that although cumulative, having the head of safety for the Chicago Transit Authority confirm a list of accidents was not unfairly prejudicial
  • holding that, even though the plaintiff “had other opportunities *** to amend the pleadings,” the circuit court did not abuse its discretion in permitting amendment, because the opponent “was not prejudiced”
  • holding that cause-in-fact, inter alia, must be shown to establish proximate cause
  • stating that the decision whether to grant leave to amend a pleading rests within the sound discretion of the trial court
  • stating that the decision whether to grant leave to amend a pleading rests within the sound discretion of the trial court
  • pleadings may be amended at any time before final judgment on just and reasonable terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Freeman, Bilandic, Moran, Heiple

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229 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

62 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority

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