Young CHICAGO -- St. Clair County Circuit Court Judges Patrick Young and Judge Jan V. Fiss each received reprimands from the Illinois Courts Commission (ICC) for their roles in a December 2006 drunken driving accident, after a short hearing before the committee today in Chicago.
Young The Illinois Courts Commission (ICC) will hold a hearing next week involving St. Clair County Circuit Court Judges Patrick Young and Judge Jan V. Fiss over a DUI incident last year.
Young The Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board filed a complaint with the Illinois Courts Commission earlier his morning against St. Clair County Circuit Judges Jan Fiss and Patrick Young for "conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of justice and conduct that brought the judicial office into disrepute."
Attorneys for Pfizer removed a Madison County Bextra suit to federal court claiming it will inform the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) that the suit is a potential tag-along action to a panel in the Northern District of California (MDL-1699).
On a day when negative attacks erupted between candidates in a closely watched appellate court race, justices in the same battleground condemned "hysterical hyperbole" but did not squelch criticism of persons running for public office.
The Lakin Law Firm has filed a petition for substitution of judge in a class action case, Katherine Lee Henderson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, because the Wood River plaintiff's firm represented a client that sued Circuit Judge Don Weber in 1992.