SPRINGFIELD – Attorneys Stephen Tillery and John Driscoll, who poured money into judicial campaigns from Missouri, adjusted their addresses after Illinois legislators banned out of state money.
EDWARDSVILLE - A Gulf Shores woman is suing her sister for allegedly selling their mother's property and failing to provide an equal share on the proceeds.
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan showed little interest in expanding a wrongful death claim into a claim that Amazon protects negligent Chinese suppliers from liability.
If what follows isn’t an indictment of Illinois’ education establishment, we don’t know what is. Of Decatur’s public school 3rd-graders in 2019, just 2 percent of black and 16 percent of white students could read at grade level. In Rockford, it was 7 percent of black students. In Peoria, 8 percent of blacks. And in Elgin, just 11 percent of Hispanic 3rd-graders could read at grade level. Similar results can be found across the state.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Lloyd’s of London claims CSX Transportation intimidated and threatened witnesses to influence testimony at a $6 million trial about a storm that tossed locomotives like toys.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Kellogg doesn’t commit fraud by selling strawberry Pop-Tarts that include apple juice, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled on May 26.
FBI recordings revealed new details about indicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his scheme to exchange political favors for patronage appointments. He made a joke out of it.
Why have judges and lawyers - including those who bill themselves as defenders of civil liberties - largely deferred to the widespread use of emergency executive power by governors, mayors and others, throughout the Covid pandemic, despite constitutional questions?