SPRINGFIELD – Ford Motor Co. undertook no duty to warn luxury car owners that contents of their trunks could puncture their fuel tanks when Ford helped police prevent punctures in similar cars, the Illinois Supreme Court decided on Sept. 22.
Hylla Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla has halted a 2010 class action brought over washing machines that allegedly took too long to work and could possibly explode.
Hylla Although a case management conference is now set in a class action brought against Sears Roebuck & Co., there is still no decision months after a September hearing on whether Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla will stay or even dismiss the case.
Hylla Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla has yet to decide whether to dismiss, halt or allow a class action over allegedly faulty washing machines to continue.
Byron A suit seeking nearly 20 counts worth of damages over a man's injuries allegedly caused by faulty car hauling rigs is set for case management Friday.
Trela Ford Motor Co. pleaded with Illinois Supreme Court Justices last week to overturn a $43 million Madison County verdict awarded to Dora Mae Jablonski in 2005.
Goldenberg Attorneys from both sides of a proposed Madison County class action over a malfunctioning washing machine haggled over the case's similarity to a pending federal case in California Friday.
A man who loaned a company $200,000 after receiving phone calls from its alleged chief executive officer says he has never been repaid the money and has filed his second lawsuit in the matter.
MOUNT VERNON - St. Clair County Associate Judge Andrew Gleeson, having twice slashed a $98 million judgment he entered for Amiel Cueto last summer, now questions his jurisdiction to have left intact the remaining $7.4 million award.
Wood River city leaders wonder why former Triad Industries owner Rick Jones sued the city over a real estate deal but didn't sue former wife Dorothy Jones.
Stack Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon Enterprises will pay the village of Hartford $550,000 and Premcor Refining will pay $500,000 under an agreement that village trustees and the companies reached in February.
Herndon EAST ST. LOUIS – Georgia trailer maker Cottrell Inc. wants to transfer a Tennessee mechanic's lawsuit over a Tennessee injury from Illinois to Tennessee.
Lorenz-Moser EAST ST. LOUIS – Owners of Georgia trailer maker Cottrell Inc. claim a Tennessee client of Edwardsville attorney Brian Wendler pulled a fraud when he sued Cottrell in Madison County, and they ask U.S. District Judge William Stiehl to take the case.
Driscoll St. Clair County Circuit Judge Patrick Young has denied a defense motion to sever the claims of 59 plaintiffs in a product liability suit filed against Sanofi-Aventis over its antibiotic drug Ketek.
Millar Lakin Law Firm client Ashley Peach has dropped a Madison County class action suit claiming K-Mart should have given her 52 cents in change on a gift card purchase.
Retailer K-Mart has asked Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron for a June 20 hearing on a motion to dismiss a Lakin Law Firm class action claiming K-Mart should give customers change on gift card purchases.