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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HB2697

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    AN ACT concerning civil law.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 


 
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    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by 
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changing Section 2-407 as follows:
 



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    (735 ILCS 5/2-407)  (from Ch. 110, par. 2-407)



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    Sec. 2-407. Nonjoinder and misjoinder of parties - Change 
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of parties. No action shall be dismissed for misjoinder of 
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parties, or dismissed
for nonjoinder of necessary parties 
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without first affording reasonable
opportunity to add them as 
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parties. New parties may be added and
and parties
misjoined may 
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be dropped by order of the court, at any stage of the
cause, 
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before or after judgment, as the ends of justice may require 
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and
on terms which the court may fix.
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(Source: P.A. 82-280.)