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Saying it would be “a medical hardship,’’ attorneys for former Mayor Richard M. Daley are trying to prevent him from taking the witness stand in City Hall’s lawsuit to break a sweetheart lease given to the Park Grill restaurant in Millennium Park while Daley was mayor.
Daley’s attorneys declined to elaborate on the “medical hardship” in the motion they filed Wednesday asking Cook County Circuit Court Judge Moshe Jacobius to quash the subpoena the former mayor received from the Park Grill’s attorneys.
“In light of the significant privacy interests at issue and publicity concerns relating to Mr. Daley’s status as a public figure, an affidavit supporting this assertion can be provided to the court, if necessary, for in camera review,” Daley’s attorney Terrence Burns wrote in a motion that will discussed Tuesday when the Park Grill trial resumes.
Daley reportedly suffered a stroke earlier this year when he was rushed to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Jan. 31, the day his nephew Richard J. Vanecko pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for throwing the punch that killed David Koschman a decade ago.
Besides the former mayor’s unspecified medical hardship, Burns argued “there is no good cause for compelling” Daley to testify at the trial because he had little recollection about the Park Grill deal during a lengthy deposition he gave last summer.
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