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Retired Scott AFB operator can pursue class action against BX over credit card receipts
CHICAGO - Retired Scott Air Force base radio operator Linda Thompson, who proposed in 2022 to lead a national class action in St. Clair County circuit court against Exchange stores on Army and Air Force bases, can start litigating in 2025.
Former IDOT worker settles alleged partisan firing lawsuit
EAST ST. LOUIS - Former Illinois transportation department employee Shelly Shevlin of Freeburg settled a claim that former governor Bruce Rauner terminated her for partisan motives.
EEOC targets New Athens farmers over former employee's transgender discrimination claims
BENTON - Civil rights law that President Johnson signed with Martin Luther King looking over his shoulder now protects a person who has had two genders, two nationalities, three names and two phony social security numbers.
Freight broker not legally responsible in driver's injury crash suit
CHICAGO - U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle correctly ruled that Shawn Montgomery of Missouri can’t sue C.H. Robinson Company of Minnesota for arranging the trip of a truck that hit his truck, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled on Jan. 2.
Local assistant AG defending prisoner suits abruptly leaves office
SWANSEA - Jesse Jones Gray, who as an assistant attorney general defended Illinois against civil suits of prisoners and other plaintiffs for 11 months, left his job in December.
Another group of Paraquat plaintiffs face possible dismissal
EAST ST. LOUIS - Paraquat litigation leaders Sarah Doles of Florida and Kahldoun Baghdadi of California invited Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel to order 40 plaintiffs to show why she shouldn’t dismiss their claims.
Defendant Geo Snapshot says it will go broke if not allowed to settle BIPA suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - Global photography platform Geo Snapshot of Australia claims it might not survive if it can’t settle a suit alleging that its facial recognition violates Illinois law.
Insurer dismisses former Caraway law partners from malpractice policy suit
BENTON - Berkley Insurance dismissed Daniel Broombaugh of St. Louis and Cheryl Fisher of Swansea from a suit seeking a declaration that a malpractice policy of their former firm doesn’t cover misappropriation of client funds by their former partner Jason Caraway.
Judge Gilbert rejects proposed $825K police brutality default judgment
BENTON - Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert rejected a recommendation to award $825,035.97 to Dorian Hendricks as default judgment on an excessive force suit against East St. Louis police on Dec. 12.
Fertility clinic, genetic lab settle lawsuit over child born with physical abnormalities
EAST ST. LOUIS - Lindsey Cordes and John Cortes of St. Louis settled a claim that Vios fertility clinic and Advagenix genetic laboratory caused Lindsey to give birth to a daughter with physical anomalies.
Regulators sue East St. Louis over failure to improve sewer system
EAST ST. LOUIS - National and state environmental agencies sued East St. Louis at U. S. district court on Dec. 11, claiming the city didn’t keep commitments it made last year to improve the sewer system.
Lawyer for Cahokia Heights' residents slams sewage settlement: 'They deserve much more'
EAST ST. LOUIS - Water regulators propose a tiny $30,000 penalty for years of sewage violations in Cahokia Heights out of sympathy for the city’s poverty in a consent decree that depends on the city to pay for improvements.
McGlynn dismisses middle car driver from crash suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn dismissed a claim that Zachary Langley of Caseyville contributed to a highway crash without moving.
Defense moves to dismiss another batch of Paraquat suits citing failure to explain exposure
EAST ST. LOUIS - Syngenta and Chevron moved on Dec. 6 to dismiss 47 plaintiffs who alleged that weed killer Paraquat caused Parkinson’s disease, claiming they violated an order to search for proof of exposure.
St. Clair County officials seek to dismiss defamation, termination suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - St. Clair County board chairman Mark Kern and emergency management director Herb Simmons moved on Dec. 5 to dismiss a defamation and wrongful termination suit of former human resources director Frank Bergman.
Doctor charged with distributing illegal drugs seeks stay on civil case
EAST ST. LOUIS - Missouri physician Craig Spiegel moved on Dec. 3 to stay a civil suit about the overdose of his patient Nicole Laux pending resolution of criminal charges.
Woman convicted of murder gets new chance to argue drug addicted judge slept at hearing
MOUNT VERNON - Latosha Cunningham, who faces 49 years in prison, won a second chance to plead that her lawyers ignored her when she said former St. Clair County judge Michael Cook didn’t pay attention and slept in a hearing.
Supreme Court renews hopes for wind farm developer turned down at Fifth District
SPRINGFIELD - Supreme Court Justices on Nov. 27 granted review of an appellate court decision against construction of a wind power line running 207 miles across Illinois.
Appeal denied: David Cates must defend $10 million fraud suit brought by former partner
SPRINGFIELD - Supreme Court Justices denied leave for David Cates to appeal a ruling that he must defend a $10 million fraud suit of former partner Ryan Mahoney in Madison County rather than arbitration.
Defamation suit against 'Five' host Tarlov dismissed; Claims lodged by former Hunter partner Bobulinski
NEW YORK CITY - Jessica Tarlov of “The Five” on Fox didn’t defame Hunter Biden’s former partner Anthony Bobulinski in March, U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken ruled on Nov. 26.