Madison County Republicans, who hold a 15-14 majority in county government, say they went to great lengths to achieve bi-partisan support for a re-opening plan that was approved overwhelmingly 26-2 on Tuesday.
Madison County voters are no strangers to “backdoor referendum.” However, to refresh readers’ memories these referenda require a district superintendent or legislative body requesting a referendum to sell bonds to post their intention in the newspaper.
HR 689 is another feeble attempt to make up for lost state revenues. The bill would gouge middle class disproportionately to pay for irresponsible state spending.
BENTON – Former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis and two colleagues have settled a class action alleging invasion of privacy by electronic mail provider Yahoo.
BENTON – Seeking to strengthen an eavesdropping suit against email provider Yahoo in federal court, lawyers at Goldenberg Heller added a lawyer as a plaintiff. They amended their class action complaint on Sept. 8, to assert claims for Carol Sparks of St. Jacob along with original plaintiff Kaylynn Rehberger of Highland. Neither subscribed to Yahoo, according to the complaint, but Yahoo intercepted messages they sent to Yahoo subscribers.
Former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis recovers from political defeat by stepping forward as a new class action lawyer. On June 18, she entered an appearance in a federal suit claiming Yahoo violates the privacy of those who don’t subscribe to it but do communicate with its subscribers. Goldenberg Heller of Edwardsville, the firm Callis joined after losing a Congressional race last year, filed the suit through lawyers Thomas Rosenfeld and Kevin Green. Upon Callis’s appearance, the court
Seven days after a California judge rejected a national class action on an eavesdropping claim against Yahoo, Kaylynn Rehberger of Highland started a similar suit on behalf of an Illinois class. She claims Yahoo violates state law by intercepting messages between its users and persons like her with other email providers. Thomas Rosenfeld and Kevin Green, of Goldenberg Heller in Edwardsville, filed her complaint at U.S.
To the Editor:Abraham Lincoln once stated; “You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.”President Obama made the following statements. What do you think? “I don’t have lobbyists,” Feb. 10, 2010 (note Jonathan Gruber); “We shouldn’t mandate the purchase of health care,” Feb. 26, 2008; “My Father served in WWII," Aug. 9, 2010 (his father was 3- 9 yrs during
