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Ad attacking Karmeier pokes at 'Price' and 'Avery' decisions
Opponents of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier opened a television campaign last week to accuse him of selling justice. -
Lawyer adds another layer to ongoing Freed & Weiss dispute; Sues accounting firm
CHICAGO - A lawyer embroiled in a protracted legal fight with a former law partner over the messy dissolution of their erstwhile firm has set his sights on the firm’s accounting firm that happens to employ his former partner’s father. -
Illinois Supreme Court agrees to review Price v. Philip Morris
TilleryThe Illinois Supreme Court will once again weigh in on the Madison County case over cigarette labeling that has been smoldering in the state’s courts for more than a decade.The justices today granted Philip Morris’ petition for leave to appeal the April ruling from the Fifth District Appellate Court, which reversed the lower court and effectively reinstated the $10.1 billion verdict in the lawsuit -
Sidewalk distraction ruling cut down by high court; 100-year-old tree too significant to die, stands
SPRINGFIELD – All seven Illinois Supreme Court Justices immunized the city of Centralia from a trip and fall suit, reversing appellate judges who found it worthy of trial. -
Tillery's team files brief under seal in Hale v. State Farm
TilleryFive high profile lawyers seeking confidentiality for documents in someone else’s lawsuit wrapped their argument in secrecy.Stephen Tillery, Brad Lakin, John Simmons, Jeff Cooper and Randall Bono sealed a brief they filed on Sept. 12, opposing a subpoena that State Farm served in a federal class action.State Farm served it on researcher Doug Wojcieszak, who did not assert any privilege of confidentialit