Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Illinois

Is there a motion you can file, in order to review and vacate a ruling order if you have additional information regarding the case.


Asked on 9/27/10, 4:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Depends what the status of the case is -- before a trial judgment and after a "substantive" motion such as a motion for judgment on the pleadings or for summary judgment, it's called a motion for "rehearing", and after a trial it can be that or a motion to "vacate". If it's a "procedural" ruling such as a default judgment for failure to appear and plead, you usually are talking a motion to "vacate". You need to be more specific about the nature of the "ruling" you're attempting to deal with. Motions OTHER than the procedural ones are usually very difficult to obtain because the court expects parties to be ready with their cases, and therefore the "new evidence" must be really something that was nearly impossible to know before or was somehow intentionally hidden....

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Answered on 10/02/10, 4:17 pm


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