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  "id": 5494481,
  "name": "Johnny Smith, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. State",
  "decision_date": "1992-01-23",
  "docket_number": "No. 85-CC-2329",
  "first_page": "63",
  "last_page": "64",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "45 Ill. Ct. Cl. 63"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:22:27.200738+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Johnny Smith, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "OPINION\nBurke, J.\nThis cause coming to be heard upon the report of the commissioner, after hearing all evidence and reviewing the evidentiary depositions submitted, this Court being folly advised in the premises, finds:\nThat Claimant was incarcerated at Pontiac Correctional Center when he sustained injury to his finger. The injury occurred while Claimant was participating in a recreational basketball game on ice. (Emphasis add\u00e9d.) The Claimant reported his injury and received medical attention, but was dissatisfied with the medical care received. At hearing, the finger appeared to have a mild deformation.\nClaimant\u2019s attending physician, Dr. R. S. Pankaj, indicated that Claimant\u2019s finger was X-rayed soon after the ice-basketball game and that the finger in question was not broken. He described the injury as a \u201cmild fusiform swelling in the proximal interphalangeal joint area, * * * and Claimant had a ten degree lack of full extension [of the finger].\u201d\nClaimant\u2019s claim is denied for failure to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the Respondent was guilty of negligence. When one voluntarily undertakes to play basketball on ice, there is an assumption of risk which attaches to said activity.\nWherefore, it is hereby ordered that this claim is denied.\nORDER\nBurke, J.\nThis cause coming to be. heard upon Claimant\u2019s motion for rehearing and the Court being fully advised in the premises,\nIt is hereby ordered that Claimant\u2019s petition is hereby denied.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Burke, J. Burke, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Johnny Smith, pro se, for Claimant.",
      "Roland W. Burris, Attorney General (John R. Buckley, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 85-CC-2329\nJohnny Smith, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed January 23, 1992.\nOrder filed December 18, 1992.\nJohnny Smith, pro se, for Claimant.\nRoland W. Burris, Attorney General (John R. Buckley, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0063-01",
  "first_page_order": 169,
  "last_page_order": 170
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