“It doesn’t make sense how they can delay a year and a half and come back more incompetent than when we started.” That’s what one of the applicants suing Illinois told the Chicago Sun-Times about the state’s process for licensing marijuana retailers.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Danny Collins of Cook County, one of two plaintiffs claiming Blackstone Group obtained genetic information without consent when it bought Ancestry.com’s DNA business, has chosen not to pursue the claim. He dismissed it without prejudice on Sept. 9, leaving St. Clair County resident Carolyn Bridges as sole plaintiff.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Defendants in a Florida court’s national litigation of Zantac cancer suits claim that clients of Ann Callis sued them in Madison County to escape an obligation to sue in Florida.
Imagine a husband going to his wife with a grand scheme to get his family out of the financial trouble they’re in. Out of control spending and too much debt has made a mess of their lives and his wife has been asking him for years to scale down spending and cut back excesses. Unfortunately, that’s never happened and now things are desperate.
BENTON – Administrators of Washington Park policeman Ricardo Davis’s estate dismissed a claim that the negligence of Poplar Street Bridge contractors caused him to fall to his death.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Blackstone Group equity firm of New York City obtained confidential information without consent when it bought Ancestry.com’s DNA business, according to parallel suits in two U.S. district courts.
More than half of employers could require worker vaccinations by the end of 2021, potentially setting the stage for a surge of lawsuits, should requests for exemptions be ignored or denied.
As class counsel and staff recover from illness, Maag Holdings LLC requests an extension of time to notify the public of preliminary approval of a class settlement against Wood River in a suit alleging the city violated the constitutional rights of residents by failing to properly inform them of grass cutting liens.
With billions in federal COVID-19 relief earmarked for Illinois schools and local government, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed them to use the money to lower or freeze property taxes. He made no mention of the state’s role in pushing property taxes to the second-highest in the U.S.
Our beloved Gator need not only be remembered for how he died, but more for how he lived. He lived his short life full and complete, with no regrets. We need now to carry on, to love more, appreciate more, knowing in the wash of our tears, Nick is still with us in spirit. We need only to seek his presence in our memories, and then carry on. It will be hard, but he is worth it. Be not afraid.
Remember Alcentra, the proposed name for a new town in St. Clair County to be formed from the merger of Alorton and Centreville? Then, public officials in Cahokia caught merger mania and decided to throw in with the other two declining communities.
