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  "id": 5858293,
  "name": "Warren Buckner, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Buckner v. State",
  "decision_date": "1995-01-27",
  "docket_number": "No. 87-CC-2814",
  "first_page": "196",
  "last_page": "198",
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      "cite": "47 Ill. Ct. Cl. 196"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Warren Buckner, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "ORDER\nDillard, J.\nThis cause coming to be heard on the motion of Respondent to dismiss count II of Claimants complaint, due notice having been given the parties hereto and the Court being duly advised in the premises:\nThe Court finds: That Claimant filed a complaint in the instant cause on March 17, 1987. The claim alleged therein appears to have arisen from Claimant\u2019s employment as an inmate working as a butcher in the dietary building at the Lincoln Correctional Center, Lincoln, Illinois.\nWe find that count II of the complaint filed herein is a medical malpractice claim, and that it fails to show any compliance with section 2 \u2014 622 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. (735 ILCS 5/2 \u2014 622.) Section 2 \u2014 622 requires Claimant to file an affidavit attached to the complaint. The affidavit is to declare that affiant has consulted with a health professional, the professional has determined in a written report that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for the filing of the action, and the affiant has concluded that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for the filing of such action. Alternatively, affiant shall declare that affiant was unable to obtain a consultation because the consultation could not be obtained before expiration of the statute of limitations.\nWe find that section 2 \u2014 622(g) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2 \u2014 622(g)) makes Claimants failure to comply with section 2 \u2014 622 grounds for dismissal under section 2 \u2014 619.\nIt is hereby ordered that Claimant shall obtain and file with this Court a valid health care professional affidavit within 30 days of the filing date of this order or the Respondents motion is automatically granted and count II of the claim herein is dismissed.\nORDER\nSommer, C.J.\nThis cause coming to be heard on the report of the Commissioner and the motion of this Court, due notice having been given, and this Court being fully advised, finds that the Commissioner had scheduled hearings on five previous dates at which the Claimant did not appear; and the notices for the last two hearing dates, June 2, 1994, and October 6, 1994, were returned to the Commissioner as undeliverable by the post office. The Court cannot proceed without knowledge of the Claimant\u2019s address. Thus, it appears the Claimant has abandoned this claim, and it should be dismissed. It is therefore ordered that this claim is dismissed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Dillard, J. Sommer, C.J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Warren Buckner, pro se, for Claimant.",
      "Jim Ryan, Attorney General (Jan Schaffrick, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 87-CC-2814\nWarren Buckner, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOrder filed May 27, 1988.\nOrder filed January 27, 1995.\nWarren Buckner, pro se, for Claimant.\nJim Ryan, Attorney General (Jan Schaffrick, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
  },
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