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    Equity Will Not Enjoin Libel: Was an "Iron Law" saved by the Death of Johnnie Cochran?
    by David McCarthy,
    DuPage County Bar Association Journal, July 2009

    Speak first, and then pay the price. A colleague handling a divorce case recently asked if he could get an injunction to prohibit an opposing spouse ... Read more

     

    The Employee Retaliation Plaintiff and Title VII: The 800-pound Gorilla Plays the Victim
    by David McCarthy
    DuPage County Bar Association Journal, Nov. 2008

    F. Scott Fitzgerald said, '[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." 
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    Pre-trial Dismissal Based On Other Affirmative Matter: An Open Invitation Has Its Limits, Too.
    by David McCarthy,
    DuPage County Bar Association Journal, July 2005

    Section 2-619 of the code of Civil Procedure all but invites abuse by its promise of so much so soon. For obtaining orders of dismissal with prejudice at the start of a case section 2-619 has no peers because  "[i]t is designed to encourage early termination of litigation where affirmative defenses exist." Read more
     

     

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