“We had no problems with other judges in the past,” commented attorney Monica Kelly of Ribbeck Law in Chicago. “So, either the judge does not understand the rule or we don’t understand it.”
Cronyism in the car industry didn’t start with Chicago’s ongoing attempt to control ride-share companies. In 1982, big car dealerships successfully lobbied to ban their competitors from making Sunday car sales. A generation of car buyers has lost out because of it.
An attorney who served as chief of staff to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be suspended from the practice of law for three years, a panel of the state’s Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission’s (ARDC) Review Board recommended this week.
Mary Claire (left) and Madelyn McGlynn After deciding to send 400 bed nets to Uganda to fight malaria, then-high school freshman Mary Claire McGlynn and her younger sister, Madelyn McGlynn, knew they had to do something more to make a difference.
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill
SPRINGFIELD – As Illinois lawmakers wrestle with raising the individual income tax rate to help keep the state solvent, a piece of legislation that would expand opportunities for personal injury attorneys may be on a fast track for passage in the current lame duck session.
Cueto BELLEVILLE - Circuit Judge Patrick Hitpas has dismissed Amiel Cueto's claims against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Illinois Civil Justice League in which he alleged they invaded his privacy by placing him in false light.
MOUNT VERNON - Disbarred lawyer Amiel Cueto can't question Belleville News-Democrat reporter George Pawlaczyk under oath about events that led to Cueto's imprisonment, the Fifth District Appellate Court decided.
Cueto Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder is scheduled to hear motions in a lawsuit filed by disbarred attorney Amiel Cueto against a St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist, his employer and five other defendants.
Murnane The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co. is certain to re-kindle talk of the 2004 Illinois Supreme Court election in which Justice Lloyd Karmeier defeated former Appellate Justice Gordon Maag in the Fifth Illinois District in Southern Illinois.