MOUNT VERNON – Home builder and remodeler Kevin Link of Granite City challenged his conviction on a city ordinance without a lawyer and his arguments stood up to those of two lawyers and the reasoning of two judges.
EDWARDSVILLE – Former Madison County board member Lisa Ciampoli is alleged to have defamed former information technology director Rob Dorman and cost him his job, according to a suit Dorman filed on Aug. 5.
GRANITE CITY – Facing a constitutional challenge and a change in Illinois law, city leaders repealed an ordinance requiring a landlord to evict tenants if anyone in the home commits a felony in the city.
GRANITE CITY -- Businessman Bill Campbell, who owns various rental properties in Granite City, is looking to shed some light on the city's crime-free housing ordinance and what he describes as negative consequences for tenants and landlords.
BELLEVILLE – East St. Louis election commissioners must issue subpoenas that mayoral candidate Robert Eastern III requested in a ballot dispute, St. Clair County Associate Judge Julie Katz ruled on Jan. 11.
Is it appropriate to waive a possible cumulative total in excess of $6,000 in fees and fines (according to the language in the ordinance) because those persons violating the ordinance are city employees?
Circuit Judge John Barberis Jr. presided over the first six-person civil jury trial in Madison County since former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill into law shrinking jury sizes for civil cases from 12 jurors to six.
