95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2697

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - John A. Fritchey

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/2-407   from Ch. 110, par. 2-407

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Section 2-407 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/2-407)  (from Ch. 110, par. 2-407)
7     Sec. 2-407. Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties - Change
8 of parties. No action shall be dismissed for misjoinder of
9 parties, or dismissed for nonjoinder of necessary parties
10 without first affording reasonable opportunity to add them as
11 parties. New parties may be added and and parties misjoined may
12 be dropped by order of the court, at any stage of the cause,
13 before or after judgment, as the ends of justice may require
14 and on terms which the court may fix.
15 (Source: P.A. 82-280.)