Martinez v. Scandroli

How courts have described this case

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• “Once a cause is reached for hearing, *** the movant is then required to present especially grave reasons to support his request” for a continuance.
• “Where no reason exists for substitution of counsel, a party should only be allowed sufficient time for his counsel to prepare, not for each subsequent counsel he may seek to prepare independently.”
• no abuse of discretion in denying a motion for continuance where the case was set for a September 26 trial date on August 19, the plaintiff retained new counsel in early September, and counsel sought a continuance on September 19 and 23 because he had not had sufficient time to prepare

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

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• Mireles v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-03-30· cited 22×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-31· cited 21×
• Wine v. Bauerfreund
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-04-03· cited 16×
• Sands v. J.I. Case Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-23· cited 14×
• O'NEILL v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-01-22· cited 14×
• Dempsey v. Sternik
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-09-24· cited 11×
• In Re Marriage of Chesrow
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-01-14· cited 7×
• Robelet v. Police Pension Fund of the City of Crystal Lake
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2018-02-16· cited 3×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-05-18· cited 2,326×
• Kahle v. John Deere Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-11-30· cited 124×
• Teitelbaum v. Reliable Welding Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-05-10· cited 44×
• Feder v. Hiera
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-06-20· cited 16×
• Roberts v. McDaniel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1959-09-29· cited 11×
• Trillet v. Bachman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-05-28· cited 10×
• City of Chicago v. Southgate Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-06-25· cited 6×
• Huber v. Reznick
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-06-11· cited 6×
• Marshall v. Henning
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-22· cited 5×
• White v. Estate of Herhold
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1913-10-15· cited 3×
• Gaines v. Chicago Railways Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1929-11-06· cited 3×