Supreme Court of Illinois

In a case arising from the suicide of a man who was denied involuntary admission to a state mental hospital, summary judgement for the defendants is reversed over claims of sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2004
• Published 03/18/2004

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Paul Racette, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marvin A. Brustin, Milo W. Lundblad and Matthew S. Knorr, Chicago, for appellee.