Court Opinion

ID: 9860369
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:19:45.957851+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:21:37.351914
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE NASH, specially concurring: While the opinion reaches the correct result, it unnecessarily and at length undertakes a review of the cause of action of retaliatory discharge, a matter not challenged in this case. I express no opinion by my concurrence as to the correctness of the dictum which here considers the sufficiency of the complaint. I join in Justice Reinhard’s special concurrence. JUSTICE REINHARD, specially concurring: The analysis portion of the opinion contains a lengthy discussion on whether the complaint states a cause of action. The opinion concludes that it does. I am reluctant to concur in that part of the opinion because the issue of the sufficiency of the complaint was not raised as an issue on appeal by the appellant and the opinion has engaged in this unnecessary review sua sponte. While the sufficiency of a complaint may be challenged at any stage of the proceedings (see Wimmer v. Koenigseder (1985), 108 Ill. 2d 435, 439, 484 N.E.2d 1088; Naiditch v. Shaf Home Builders, Inc. (1987), 160 Ill. App. 3d 245, 258, 512 N.E.2d 1027), there is no occasion to discuss this question here as the issue is not raised. Other than for jurisdictional reasons, a reviewing court should not ordinarily search the record for unargued and unbriefed questions. I concur with the conclusion in the balance of the opinion that plaintiff’s evidence did not establish a cause of action and that the trial judge erred in not granting the motion for judgment n.o.v.