Supreme Court Rule 341(a) says footnotes in briefs should be used "sparingly," and Rule 344(b) says they are "discouraged." Now they can also be "stricken": In Lundy v. Farmers Group, Inc., 322 Ill.App.3d 214, 750 N.E.2d 314, 255 Ill.Dec. 733 (2d Dist. 2001), the court found that the defendantâ„¢s reply brief had 15 single-spaced footnotes which, if they had been incorporated into the body of the brief, would have busted the page limit in Rule 341(a). So, out they go.