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PEORIA An appellate court has ruled that a local judge erred two years ago when he dismissed a lawsuit against the Peoria Park District by a couple who say they were injured at Camp Wokanda. The panel of judges from the 3rd District Appellate Court in Ottawa held last year, that now-retired Judge Michael McCuskey erred when he threw out a 2017 lawsuit filed by Michael Torres and Jaimie Gibson against the district. The ruling was recently officially published by the court. McCuskey had sided with the park district, which filed a motion to dismiss the suit. Motions to dismiss are fairly common within civil proceedings and tend to focus on legal technicalities, not the substantive merits of a case. ....