Court Opinion

ID: 9725703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 12:02:57.870962+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:18.379918
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE WOLFSON, specially concurring: I write this special concurrence only to express my disagreement with a small portion of the majority opinion. We should apply an abuse of discretion standard to the trial court’s decision to bar Dr. Gomez’s testimony against Dr. Joyce. To reach the conclusion that Dr. Gomez was not qualified to testify the trial court had to review Dr. Gomez’s deposition and voir dire testimony. The trial court weighed the testimony and made an evidentiary ruling. It was not a ruling based on “documentary evidence,” as it was in Townsend v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 227 Ill. 2d 147, 154 (2007).