We all have favorite causes: charitable groups, social groups, political groups. We might not mind other people knowing what charity we support. After all, it's likely to be our church, the United Way, or an organization fighting a disease that claimed a loved one.
Bast SPRINGFIELD – Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge must carry out Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's order requiring agricultural trade groups, researchers and consultants to disclose their activities to Stephen Tillery, who hasn't sued any of them.
SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Magistrate Judge Byron Cudmore won't open records of private groups to class action lawyer Stephen Tillery unless the Illinois Supreme Court does.
Bast CHICAGO – U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan denied reconsideration of an order protecting private records of the Heartland Institute from class action lawyer Stephen Tillery.
Tillery CHICAGO – Stephen Tillery can't compel the Heartland Institute to reveal the sources of its support, U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan decided on May 13.
Martin CHICAGO – Heartland Institute, seeking to protect the privacy of its contributors in federal court, asks District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan to strike Stephen Tillery's allegations that it created false reports on weed killer atrazine for Syngenta Crop Production.
Do law students take courses in basic logic anymore? Or has professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. been replaced by lawyer-trained pragmatists who advocate gaming the system with fallacy-fueled emotional appeals to judges and juries?
Zigler SPRINGFIELD – Stephen Tillery of St. Louis argues at the Illinois Supreme Court that Heartland Institute of Chicago surrendered its right of free association by publishing research for the benefit of Syngenta Crop Protection.
Mudge A five-and-a-half year old public relations proposal cited last week by Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge as "hostile" toward the Madison County judicial system touches on more than just the county's judicial reputation.
Mudge Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge has ordered Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. to turn over public relations and other documents that the company had claimed were privileged to plaintiff Holiday Shores Sanitary District.
Bast CHICAGO – Attorney Stephen Tillery of St. Louis, seeking to ban weed killer atrazine and force its producers to build water treatment plants throughout the Midwest, could also end up destroying a research institute that favors free enterprise.
Tillery Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge heard arguments in another of a series of discovery disputes that have dogged a class action brought by a local sanitary district against the makers of the weed-killer atrazine Wednesday.
Mudge Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge is set to hear a plea by a non-party to a proposed class action centered on a common weed killer next week.
Tillery A settlement could be in the works in a proposed multi-state federal class action over water contamination allegedly caused by atrazine, a weed killer commonly used by farmers.
Mudge A non-party to a proposed class action over the weed killer atrazine is asking to stop discovery in the suit while it appeals to the Illinois State Supreme Court.
Tillery MOUNT VERNON – Appellate judges won't review a decision granting free speech privilege to groups whose documents Stephen Tillery of St. Louis demanded in his class action against Syngenta Crop Protection Services.
Crowder The appellate court at Mount Vernon has received the appeal of a discovery order targeted by both sides and third parties in one of a series of proposed class actions over the weed killer atrazine.
Crowder A proposed class action suit filed six years ago over alleged water contamination caused by the weed killer atrazine is on its way to the appellate court in Mount Vernon.
Tillery Holiday Shores Sanitation District is asking that a higher court also hear its discovery-related questions after a defendant it is suing in Madison County was allowed to raise First Amendment issues with the Fifth District Appellate Court.