Backdated court orders
Dardagan v. Maher
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Suvad Dardagan asked the Supreme Court to review an Illinois appeals court’s dismissal of his appeal, arguing that the judgment was void and that a later backdated written order could not make an oral judgment appealable.
- Who it affects
- The denial ends Dardagan’s request for Supreme Court review but does not resolve whether the judgment or later order was legally valid.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Court refused to hear his case (denied review) and did not decide those arguments.
Dardagan’s dispute centered on whether a trial court’s oral judgment and a later written order allowed him to appeal.
Question presented
1. Whether in the absence of appearance or acquiescence of the State's Attorney, a judgment entered by a court, having no jurisdiction over either the parties or the cause, is absolutely void? 2. When a trial court announces a final judgment and terminates further proceedings in the absence of a signed written order, the judgment of the court is not either final or appealable. If four months later the clerk of the court backdates a signed written order to appear that it was filed on the date an oral judgment was pronounced, to justify the pronounced judgment, whether the decision of the reviewing courts to dismiss appeal is absolute nullity?
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