Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Clark filed a motion to withdraw his request that sought to have portions of Tom Lakin's criminal trial closed to the public.
Deborah Pontious filed a defamation and invasion of privacy suit against the Belleville News-Democrat in Madison County Circuit Court Feb. 21, over a March 26, 2006, article which the lawsuit alleges misstated the reasons for Pontious' suspension from her teaching position at Effingham High School.
Amiel Cueto Disbarred attorney and convicted felon Amiel Cueto claims his privacy was invaded and he was placed in a false light before the public by a political ad aimed at his brother, a circuit judge running for election in St. Clair County last November.
A former Belleville News-Democrat employee is suing the newspaper's parent company, The McClatchy Co., alleging he was fired in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim.
Michael Porter of Marissa is suing Illinois Central Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad over the deaths of his wife and daughter who were killed at a gateless crossing in Marissa on Nov. 20, 2006.
John Hopkins Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber has denied Edwardsville plaintiff's attorney John Hopkins' motion for substitution of judge in a medical malpractice case, saying the request was "meritless and frivolous."
Days after a secretive Madison County civil sexual assault complaint was dismissed, expunged and then preserved by the court, curiosity about the matter has hardly subsided.
Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn's order to preserve a sealed civil sexual assault case that was expunged by a circuit judge may not have been necessary.
Madison County Associate Circuit Judge Ralph Mendelsohn ordered the Madison County Circuit Clerk's office to preserve an expunged sexual assault civil case while a daily newspaper fights a legal battle to gain access to the sealed court file.
The Belleville News-Democrat filed an emergency motion seeking an order to preserve a sexual assault case dismissed last week in Madison County Circuit Court.
Lawyers from the Lakin Law Firm subpoenaed a Belleville News-Democrat reporter on short notice Monday to testify at a hearing on the alleged bias of Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber.
Long gone are the days when judicial elections were down-ballot races barely noticed by voters in which party affiliation and a familiar name was all that mattered.
While there’s much a-do about St. Clair County vote buying we cannot help but ponder a far uglier travesty on this—the birthday of humanity’s greatest ever democracy.
While the number of new asbestos lawsuits has dropped precipitously in Madison County, a deluge of filings is keeping clerks in a Delaware court working nights and weekends to keep up.