2023 IL App (1st) 230012 

 SECOND DIVISION

 June 6, 2023 

Nos. 1-23-0012 and 1-23-0084 (consolidated) 

_____________________________________________________________________________ 

IN THE

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

______________________________________________________________________________ 

DOOR PROPERTIES, LLC; SERANI CAROL ) 

ANDERSON; MIDWEST BANK TRUST COMPANY; ) Appeal from the 

and WILDWOOD, LLC, ) Circuit Court of 

 ) Cook County 

Plaintiffs, ) 

 ) 

 v. ) 10 L 12931 

) 

AYAD M. NAHLAWI, ) 

) Honorable 

Defendant-Appellant ) Patrick J. Heneghan,

) Judge Presiding 

(Door Properties, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee). ) 

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JUSTICE ELLIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. 

Presiding Justice Fitzgerald Smith and Justice Howse concurred in the judgment and 

 opinion. 

OPINION

¶ 1 As our federal colleagues once told another serial contemnor, the first rule of holes is to 

stop digging. Lightspeed Media Corp. v. Smith, 761 F.3d 699, 702 (7th Cir. 2014). Ayad Nahlawi 

would be wise to heed that advice now. When we last saw him, he was in contempt of court and 

racking up contempt fines by the day. His debts—already sizeable—keep growing ever larger. Yet

he continues to flout the commands of the courts of this state.

¶ 2 His most recent misadventure landed him in jail, after the court issued a writ of body 

attachment with a “cash bond” of $262,000—the sum of his contempt fines up to that point (the 
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meter is still running). When Nahlawi was detained on a routine traffic stop, the police executed 

the writ, locking him up in Cook County jail on condition that he pay the $262,000.

¶ 3 He petitioned for emergency relief from this court. Sensing the strong likelihood of error, 

we ordered him released until we could consider the matter by expedited appeal.

¶ 4 We now vacate the court’s order and the writ of body attachment. Though we are 

sympathetic to the trial court, which inherited this difficult situation and understandably grew 

impatient with Nahlawi, we nevertheless find that the court erred in locking up Nahlawi on the 

condition that he pay the contempt fine. But Nahlawi should understand clearly that, under the 

proper procedure, he could soon face jail again if he continues to refuse to answer the discovery 

requests that prompted the contempt finding years ago.

¶ 5 BACKGROUND

¶ 6 We return to the multi-volume tale that is Door Properties’ quest to collect a judgment of 

approximately $750,000 from Nahlawi. For a comprehensive history of how everyone got here, 

begin with Door Properties, LLC v. Nahlawi, 2015 IL App (1st) 131256-U, which affirmed the 

underlying judgment. Everything that has happened in this case since our affirmance of the 

underlying judgment in 2015 has revolved around Door Properties’ attempt, via postjudgment 

supplementary proceedings, to collect its judgment from Nahlawi. 

¶ 7 Though Nahlawi has claimed to be penniless, Door Properties has long believed that 

Nahlawi has been receiving compensation through parents, friends, or other entities to skirt Door 

Properties’ efforts to collect on its judgment. See Door Properties, LLC v. Nahlawi, 2021 IL App 

(1st) 182568-U, ¶ 44. This compensation might not “land on a W-2 or 1099 form” but may 

qualify as attachable compensation no less. Id. To confirm its suspicions, Door Properties has 

labored to learn more about the nature of these relationships. 
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¶ 8 Not long ago, we affirmed a pair of orders holding Nahlawi in contempt of court for 

refusing to comply with two citation rider requests Door Properties issued, seeking to discover 

any assets he might have. See Door Properties, 2021 IL App (1st) 182568-U; Door Properties, 

LLC v. Nahlawi, 2021 IL App (1st) 190235-U. Nahlawi’s failure to comply with these two 

discovery orders, even after we affirmed the contempt findings, forms the backbone of the 

present controversy. 

¶ 9 A. The Original Citation Rider

¶ 10 The first of these discovery orders came about after Door Properties issued a citation to 

discover Nahlawi’s assets. Included in that citation was a rider requesting additional documents. 

Nahlawi objected to one of the requests—Request 20—in that original rider. After narrowing the 

scope of Request 20 more than once, the court overruled his objection and ordered him to 

comply with it. Nahlawi did not answer it, more battles ensued, and the case languished for 

several more years.

¶ 11 But on February 6, 2018, the court reached the end of its rope. It ordered Nahlawi to 

answer Request 20 of the original citation rider within 21 days or else. He ran to this court, but 

we dismissed his appeal for a lack of appellate jurisdiction. Door Properties, LLC v. Nahlawi, 

2018 IL App (1st) 180355-U. Upon remand from our dismissal, on October 15, 2018, the court 

again ordered Nahlawi to comply with Request 20 of the original citation rider. Nahlawi still 

refused and instead asked to be held in “friendly contempt.” On November 20, 2018, the court 

granted the contempt part but was not inclined to be friendly about it. Instead, it found Nahlawi 

to be in indirect civil contempt and imposed a sanction of $100 a day until he purged the 

contempt by producing the documents in Request 20. Nahlawi appealed, and we affirmed the 

trial court in all respects. See Door Properties, 2021 IL App (1st) 182568-U. 
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¶ 12 B. The Supplemental Citation Rider

¶ 13 Meanwhile, Door Properties issued a second, supplemental rider to the original citation 

on April 18, 2018, asking for more documents and information. Nahlawi objected to the entirety 

of the supplemental rider, but on November 20, 2018 (the same day it held him in contempt for 

failing to comply with Request 20), the court overruled all his objections. It ordered him to 

respond to the supplemental rider by December 4, 2018. 

¶ 14 On December 12, Nahlawi (having not responded to the supplemental rider), asked the 

court to hold him in “friendly contempt.” Again, the court was happy to hold him in contempt 

but not to be friendly about it. It found him in indirect civil contempt for willfully failing to 

respond to the supplemental rider. Nahlawi appealed, and we affirmed, presuming the circuit 

court’s decision was proper because we did not have an adequate record to review. Door 

Properties, 2021 IL App (1st) 190235-U. 

¶ 15 C. Contempt Proceedings Post-Remand

¶ 16 With those cases finished, Nahlawi was in contempt of two orders: (1) the October 15, 

2018, order requiring him to comply with Request 20 of the original citation rider and (2) the 

November 20, 2018, order that required him to comply with the supplemental citation rider. (For 

brevity, we will refer to them as the “discovery orders.”) Yet Nahlawi still refused to yield.

¶ 17 To perhaps prod Nahlawi yet again, Door Properties filed a “Petition to Set Purge” in the 

circuit court on January 18, 2022. In that petition, Door Properties noted that Nahlawi had 

exhausted his appeals of the contempt findings and had not yet produced any records as required 

by the discovery orders. It then asked the trial court to set a “purge amount and a purge 

deadline.” 

¶ 18 The court gave Nahlawi an opportunity to respond to the petition to set a purge, but 
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(perhaps unsurprisingly) he did not. In a written order entered on July 5, 2022, the court granted 

Door Properties’ petition. After reciting much of the tortured history of the case, the court 

concluded that Nahlawi had not produced any documents in response to the citation riders, that 

he had not “purged himself of the contempt,” and that there was no just reason to delay setting a 

“purge amount” on the sanctions. It calculated that Nahlawi had been in contempt for a total of 

2,620 days and, at a penalty of $100 per day, had accumulated a monetary sanction of $262,000 

in contempt fines. 

¶ 19 The court then issued a “writ of body attachment” against Nahlawi “for his indirect civil 

contempt with Cash Bail set in the amount of $262,000 to be paid to the Clerk of the Circuit 

Court of Cook County, Illinois.” The court stayed the writ for 45 days, until August 19, 2022, to 

allow Nahlawi to pay the $262,000 sanction. But if Nahlawi did not pay, the court ordered the 

writ given to the Cook County Sheriff for enforcement. Last, the court reminded Nahlawi he still 

had to respond to the citation riders and that, every day he failed to do so, his fines increased. 

¶ 20 Nahlawi filed a motion to reconsider in August. In that motion, Nahlawi argued that he 

could not comply with the monetary sanction because he was without any assets, “certainly any 

assets sufficient to pay a sanction of $262,000.” Nahlawi argued that, since he was unable to pay 

the sanction, the court should reduce or vacate the sanction, since it would have no coercive 

effect on him. He also claimed he was working to reply to Request 20 of the original citation 

rider and requested additional time to do so. 

¶ 21 On December 20, 2022, the court denied Nahlawi’s motion to reconsider. In an 11-page 

order, the court wrote that “Nahlawi’s total defiance and unwillingness to comply with his 

obligations *** has operated to paralyze, if not completely eviscerate, this Court’s efforts to 

effectively and timely manage these citation proceedings.” It blasted Nahlawi’s “contemptuous 
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conduct” for delaying the collection of the judgment and the harm it caused the plaintiffs in the 

case. The court was unmoved by Nahlawi’s argument that he was unable to pay the sanction, 

calling his claim that he was a pauper, without evidence, an “absurd argument.” The court then 

stayed the writ of body attachment until January 4, 2023, with orders it be given to the sheriff if 

Nahlawi had not paid the “purge sum” of $262,000 at that time. Nahlawi filed a notice of appeal 

in this court shortly thereafter.

¶ 22 On February 16, 2023, Nahlawi was stopped by police in a routine traffic stop. Pursuant 

to the writ of body attachment, police took him into custody. Nahlawi was remanded to the Cook 

County Jail until and unless he posted the $262,000 “cash bond.” 

¶ 23 Nahlawi filed an emergency motion in this court on February 21, 2023, requesting we 

stay enforcement of the writ of body attachment and order Nahlawi released pending his appeal 

from the July 5 and December 20 orders. We granted that motion and ordered expedited briefing.

¶ 24 ANALYSIS

¶ 25 Nahlawi challenges the July 5 order and the writ of body attachment issued here. On 

review, we will invalidate a contempt judgment only when the court has abused its discretion. 

In re Marriage of O’Malley, 2016 IL App (1st) 151118, ¶ 25. An abuse of discretion occurs 

when no reasonable person would take the view of the circuit court or when the court commits 

an error of law. Id.; Campbell v. Autenrieb, 2018 IL App (5th) 170148, ¶ 26. 

¶ 26 The inherent power of courts to compel compliance with their orders is vital to the 

administration of justice. Sanders v. Shepard, 163 Ill. 2d 534, 540 (1994). And this case may be 

a prime example of why a court must have the power to wield the cudgel of contempt. Nahlawi 

has flouted multiple orders, making what should be a very simple and straightforward process 

needlessly complicated. Courts must be independently vested with power to impose silence, 
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respect, and decorum in their presence and submission to their lawful mandates. International 

Union, United Mine Workers of America v. Bagwell, 512 U.S. 821, 831 (1994). Courts have thus 

embraced an inherent contempt authority as a necessity to ensure they can enforce their other 

powers. Id. 

¶ 27 Yet the power of contempt is also uniquely susceptible to abuse. Ex parte Terry, 128 U.S. 

289, 309 (1888). Unlike other areas of the law, where the legislature defines both the 

sanctionable conduct and the penalty for it, civil contempt proceedings are helmed by the 

offended judge, who is solely responsible for “identifying, prosecuting, adjudicating, and 

sanctioning the contumacious conduct.” Bagwell, 512 U.S. at 831. While this case is a fine

example of the necessity of contempt powers, it also highlights the peril a court faces when 

wielding it. 

¶ 28 I

¶ 29 Nahlawi claims the court imposed an improper “purge” when it made his release from 

custody contingent on payment of $262,000 in contempt fines, rather than conditioned on him 

answering the citation riders. We agree that is where the problem lies.

¶ 30 Civil contempt is remedial in nature, intended to benefit the complainant by coercing 

obedience with a court order. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U.S. 418, 441 (1911). 

Because of its coercive purpose, the sanction or penalty must be designed to compel future 

compliance with the court’s commands. Felzak v. Hruby, 226 Ill. 2d 382, 391 (2007); see In re 

Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 58. 

¶ 31 The ability of the contemnor to “purge” the contempt through compliance with the 

underlying court order is thus an indispensable ingredient of any civil contempt. Felzak, 226 Ill. 

2d at 391; In re Marriage of Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d 26, 44 (1990) (“The contemnor must be 
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capable of taking the action sought to be coerced ***.”). Simply stated, “ ‘A valid contempt 

order must contain a purge provision, which lifts the sanction when the contemnor complies with 

the order. [Citation.] A civil contempt order that fails to provide the contemnor with the “keys to 

his cell” is void.’ ” Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 58 (quoting Bank of 

America, N.A. v. Freed, 2012 IL App (1st) 113178, ¶ 42).

¶ 32 The court’s original contempt orders imposed daily fines of $100 until Nahlawi complied

with the discovery orders and produced documents responsive to the citation riders. They were

proper uses of civil contempt power, with a proper purge provision—compliance with the court’s 

discovery orders—which is one of the many reasons we affirmed them. Door Properties, 2021 

IL App (1st) 182568-U, ¶ 57; Door Properties, 2021 IL App (1st) 190235-U, ¶ 12. 

¶ 33 The July 5 order at issue here, however, sent Nahlawi to jail not until he complied with 

the discovery orders—but until he paid $262,000 in accumulated contempt fines. The purge, in 

other words, was not compliance with the original discovery orders but payment of a fine that, to 

date, he had accrued for noncompliance with those orders. 

¶ 34 That was error. A civil contemnor “purges” himself of contempt by finally doing what 

the original order told him to do—in this case, to comply with the discovery requests. Felzak, 

226 Ill. 2d at 391; Marriage of O’Malley, 2016 IL App (1st) 151118, ¶ 26. That is why, when we 

discuss civil contempt, we often refer to the contemnor as holding the “key” to his own “jail 

cell”—the contemnor has the unilateral power to purge his contempt by complying with the 

original court order. See Gompers, 221 U.S. at 442. 

¶ 35 Coercing Nahlawi to pay the fine would not and could not purge Nahlawi of his original 

contemptuous behavior—refusal to comply with the discovery orders. Had Nahlawi somehow 

managed to cough up $262,000, he would be purged from incarceration, to be sure—but he 
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would not have purged his original contempt for refusing to answer the citation riders; he would 

still be in violation of the original discovery orders. Conversely, had Nahlawi finally complied

with the discovery orders and produced documents responsive to the citation riders, thereby 

purging his contempt, he still would remain locked up—until he paid the $262,000 cash bond. 

¶ 36 By tying Nahlawi’s continued detention to payment of the contempt fines, rather than to 

compliance with the discovery orders, the court decoupled the original purpose of the civil 

contempt from the measure originally used to coerce compliance. The focus shifted from 

complying with discovery to paying the fine for not complying. Absent a valid purge provision, 

the July 5 order and its accompanying writ of body attachment cannot stand. Marriage of Knoll, 

2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 58.

¶ 37 II

¶ 38 A civil contempt order with an improper purge provision can often be described by 

another name—a purported civil contempt order that, because of its improper purge provision, 

has unintentionally morphed into an order of criminal contempt. See, e.g., Penfield Co. of 

California v. Security & Exchange Comm’n, 330 U.S. 585, 592-93 (1947). And that, quite 

arguably, is what happened here—the July 5 order, in substance, became an order of indirect 

criminal contempt. 

¶ 39 We have consistently recognized that the two forms of contempt may overlap and share 

characteristics with one another. See Marriage of Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d at 43 (“The distinctions 

between the various categories of contempt *** have not always been clearly drawn.”). Clearly, 

neither the court nor the parties considered the sanctions here to be criminal in nature, but the 

court’s “subjective intent” is not dispositive; the character of the relief in the order controls. 

Bagwell, 512 U.S. at 828.
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¶ 40 While a civil contempt is coercive in nature, designed to benefit the aggrieved party by 

coercing compliance with a court order, criminal contempt is punitive and is imposed “to 

vindicate the authority of the court.” Gompers, 221 U.S. at 441. Criminal contempt is 

retrospective in that it seeks to “punish a contemnor for past acts that he cannot now undo.” 

(Internal quotation marks omitted.) Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 59.

¶ 41 Coercing Nahlawi to pay the accumulated fines via imprisonment could arguably fall 

within the realm of indirect criminal contempt. One could view the July 5 order as the court 

vindicating its authority and dignity by compelling payment of the fines it had imposed—a 

hallmark of criminal contempt. See Gompers, 221 U.S. at 441. And forcing Nahlawi to pay an 

enormous fine certainly did not benefit Door Properties in any way; the money would go to the 

county treasury, not Door Properties. See Keuper v. Beechen, Dill & Sperling Builders, Inc., 301 

Ill. App. 3d 667, 669 (1998) (“[i]n Illinois, it is well established that civil contempt is an affront 

to the authority of the court and not a private remedy,” and “any fine imposed pursuant to the 

contempt is payable to the public treasury and not a plaintiff”).

¶ 42 Compelling payment of a fixed fine, rather than compliance with the discovery orders, 

would also stray from coercing future behavior and fall more comfortably into the realm of 

punishing Nahlawi for past acts he could not undo—payment of fines he had accrued to date. See 

Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 59.

¶ 43 We would add that it seems almost inescapably clear that these fines had reached an 

amount so high that Nahlawi could not possibly afford to pay, further suggesting that they had 

become punitive in nature. See Sanders, 163 Ill. 2d at 540-41 (“ ‘When it becomes obvious that 

sanctions are not going to compel compliance, they lose their remedial characteristics and take 
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on more of the nature of punishment.’ ” (quoting Soobzokov v. CBS, Inc., 642 F.2d 28, 31 (2d 

Cir. 1981)).

¶ 44 A good example of why the July 5 order and writ of body attachment could be 

characterized as criminal contempt is the decision of Penfield, 330 U.S. 585. There, the district 

court held a corporate officer named Young in contempt for refusing to produce certain corporate 

documents. Id. at 587-88. The court imposed a determinate fine of $50 and ordered Young 

incarcerated until he paid it. Id. at 588; see also id. at 588 n.3.

¶ 45 The court of appeals reversed, finding that these sanctions were criminal in nature, not 

civil, because the fine was determinate, not conditional, and the incarceration did not coerce 

compliance with the original order to produce documents. Id. at 589. In its place, the court of 

appeals changed the remedy to one it considered coercive in nature and thus appropriate for civil 

contempt—that the fine be vacated and that Young be incarcerated until he produced the 

documents he had been ordered to produce. Id.

¶ 46 The Supreme Court agreed with the court of appeals in full: 

“When the Circuit Court of Appeals substituted imprisonment for the fine, it put a 

civil remedy in the place of a criminal punishment. For the imprisonment authorized 

would be suffered only if the documents were not produced or would continue only so 

long as Young was recalcitrant. On the other hand, the fine imposed by the District Court 

*** was unconditional and not relief of a coercive nature such as the Commission sought. 

It was solely and exclusively punitive in character.” Id. at 592-93.

¶ 47 The July 5 order here and the district court’s order in Penfield are quite similar. While the 

fine imposed by the circuit court here was initially coercive in nature—$100 a day for 

noncompliance with the discovery orders—it arguably morphed into a punitive sanction when 
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the court wrapped the ongoing fines into a fixed sum and ordered Nahlawi (like the contemnor in 

Penfield) jailed until he paid that sum.

¶ 48 If, in fact, the July 5 order thus constituted an order of indirect criminal contempt, we 

would still be compelled to vacate. Unlike indirect civil contempt, which requires only minimal 

due process protections like notice and an opportunity to be heard (Marriage of Betts, 200 Ill. 

App. 3d at 53), indirect criminal contempt is a criminal proceeding that must be accompanied by 

the full panoply of rights afforded criminal defendants (Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 

152494, ¶ 59). 

¶ 49 We will not list all of them here, but they include the rights to trial, to counsel, to call and 

confront witnesses, to compulsory process, to avoid self-incrimination, and to proof beyond a 

reasonable doubt. Id.; Marriage of Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d at 58-59. Notably, they also include the 

right to be informed in advance that the proceedings are criminal in nature, so the contemnor 

may avail himself of this full menu of rights. Marriage of Knoll, 2016 IL App (1st) 152494, ¶ 59; 

In re J.L.D., 178 Ill. App. 3d 1025, 1031 (1989).

¶ 50 Nothing like that happened here. At no time was Nahlawi informed that he was facing 

criminal contempt. Neither the court nor the parties considered the proceeding to be criminal in 

nature. Indeed, the July 5 order was not even preceded by a fresh rule to show cause—it was 

prompted by Door Properties’ “petition to set a purge” for the civil contempt order previously 

entered. So in the event that the July 5 order and its accompanying writ of body attachment could 

be construed as an order of indirect criminal contempt, we would be compelled to vacate it, too. 

¶ 51 III

¶ 52 We briefly address Door Properties’ argument that Nahlawi forfeited any challenge to the 

July 5 order granting its “Petition to Set Purge” because he did not offer a response to it at the 
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time (only seeking reconsideration after the fact). The primary purpose of the forfeiture rule is to 

ensure the trial court has an opportunity to correct a purported error, and it cannot correct that 

error if no objection is made. Dubey v. Public Storage, Inc., 395 Ill. App. 3d 342, 350 (2009). 

¶ 53 But the rule is not rigid and inflexible. Daley v. License Appeal Comm’n of Chicago, 311 

Ill. App. 3d 194, 200 (1999). We may look beyond forfeiture when the interests of justice 

require. U.S. Bank National Ass’n v. Rose, 2014 IL App (3d) 130356, ¶ 24. While we do not 

condone Nahlawi’s habit of ignoring court orders and filing deadlines, the forfeiture rule must 

yield when the court confronts the possibility that a person has been wrongly and indefinitely 

deprived of his freedom. Forfeiture is not a bar to our review.

¶ 54 IV

¶ 55 By no means are we suggesting that the court lacks the authority to enforce a civil 

contempt order by way of imprisonment. It is well established that incarceration is an appropriate 

sanction for civil contempt to coerce the contemnor’s compliance with a court order. See, e.g., 

Hicks v. Feiock, 485 U.S. 624, 632 (1988) (imprisonment is appropriate as civil contempt 

sanction if “ ‘the defendant stands committed unless and until he performs the affirmative act 

required by the court’s order’ ” (quoting Gompers, 221 U.S. at 442)); Sanders, 163 Ill. 2d at 540; 

Wilson v. Prochnow, 359 Ill. 148, 151 (1934) (“If imprisonment is ordered, it is not as a 

punishment but to the end that the other party to the suit may obtain a remedy for the 

advancement of his own private interests and rights which he could not otherwise procure.”). 

¶ 56 The only requirement, as we have noted, is that the civil contemnor must “hold[ ] in his 

own pocket the key to his jail cell,” so that “he may win his release at any time by complying 

with the order of the court.” Sanders, 163 Ill. 2d at 540; see In re Marriage of Logston, 103 Ill. 

2d 266, 289 (1984) (“Since the contempt order is coercive rather than punitive, the civil 
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contemnor must be provided with the ‘keys to his cell.’ That is, he must be allowed to purge 

himself of contempt even after he has been imprisoned.”). Here, that means that Nahlawi must be 

able to earn his release from custody by complying with the discovery orders issued by the 

court—answering the citation riders and turning over the relevant documents and discovery. 

¶ 57 So it would be well within the circuit court’s discretion to determine, after all this time

and the vast accumulation of fines, that the daily fines had lost their coercive effect and vacate 

them. See Sanders, 163 Ill. 2d at 540-41. And on motion of Door Properties or on its own motion 

to consider an alternative sanction for Nahlawi’s civil contempt, after notice and an opportunity 

to be heard, the court could opt to impose the coercive sanction of imprisonment to compel 

compliance with the discovery orders. See id. at 538; Marriage of Betts, 200 Ill. App. 3d at 46. 

¶ 58 If the court, after that hearing, were inclined to detain Nahlawi as a coercive sanction, the 

court could do so indefinitely so long as the court (1) provides Nahlawi the ability to purge his 

contempt at any time by complying with the discovery orders and (2) reviews the matter 

regularly to ensure that incarceration retains a coercive effect. See, e.g., Sanders, 163 Ill. 2d at 

541-45 (supreme court affirmed continued confinement, 31⁄2 years and counting, of civil 

contemnor who refused to obey court order and reveal whereabouts of his missing daughter 

because court reviewed detention every six months to determine if imprisonment retained 

coercive effect); see also id. at 545 (“There was sufficient evidence from which the circuit judge 

could find that the sanction continued to have a coercive effect.”).

¶ 59 CONCLUSION

¶ 60 The July 5, 2022 judgment order and accompanying writ of body attachment are vacated.

¶ 61 Vacated.
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Door Properties, LLC v. Nahlawi, 2023 IL App (1st) 230012 

Decision Under Review: Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 10-L12931; the Hon. Patrick J. Heneghan, Judge, presiding. 

Attorneys

for

Appellant:

Kevin S. Besetzny, of Besetzny Law P.C., of Chicago, for 

appellant.

Attorneys

for

Appellee:

Kevin K. McCormick, of DeWald Law Group PC, of Arlington 

Heights, for appellee.