3rd Judicial Circuit Court, Madison County, Illinois Service and Proof of Service Rules

INFOCivil cases

Applies to

Supplemental written discovery

After the plaintiff responds to standardized written discovery, individual defendants may serve supplemental product or case-specific written discovery if it is not duplicative.

Once plaintiff has responded to the standardized written discovery, supplemental product or case-specific written discovery may be served by individual defendants provided the supplemental discovery is not duplicative of the standardized discovery.

INFOCivil cases

Attorneys may use an alternative daily digest that combines the day’s notification emails into one email.

LNFS provides an alternative daily digest notification option for those attorneys interested, which aggregates all the e-mails distributed in one day into a single e-mail.

INFOCivil cases

Applies to

Site specific or plaintiff specific discovery

A plaintiff may submit site-specific or plaintiff-specific discovery without leave of court.

Plaintiff may submit site specific or Plaintiff specific discovery without leave of court.

INFOCivil cases

If a case- or defendant-specific expert supplements a report, a party may request that the expert be tendered again.

If a case or defendant specific expert witness supplements his/her report a party may request re-tender of that expert witness.

INFOCivil cases

Applies to

Supplemental written discovery

Any party may propound supplemental written discovery about the possession, alteration, modification, or destruction of evidence.

In addition, supplemental written discovery may be propounded by any party regarding the possession, alteration, modification or destruction of any evidence.

INFOCivil cases

Applies to

Master discovery

Plaintiffs' counsel should, to the extent possible, avoid using different Master discovery.

All Plaintiff's Counsel shall endeavor to the extent possible, to avoid having different Master discovery.

INFOCivil cases

Plaintiff may deposit the required information in the DMD or serve it on the parties.

Notwithstanding the above, Plaintiff may deposit the above required information in the DMD or otherwise serve the parties.