BELLEVILLE – Local resident Stephen Misselhorn, who rolled through a green light into the path of a driver fleeing from deputy Eric Tracy, sued St. Clair County sheriff Rick Watson and Tracy in circuit court on May 5.
District Judge Staci Yandle denied McKinsey & Company’s motion to amend its notice of removal in an opioid marketing lawsuit after a Belleville doctor who was joined as a defendant said she lives in both Illinois and Missouri.
Municipalities throughout Illinois are saddled with huge pension debt. Some try to get out from under it by selling city assets. Those with nothing of value to sell may resort to laying off city workers, cutting back services, etc., and still come up short.
Rising costs for Illinois’ 650 local pension funds are wreaking havoc on city budgets, taxpayer wallets and the retirement security of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter and municipal workers and retirees, according to the independent, non-profit economic research group Wirepoints.
BENTON – Rebecca Anderson of Arkansas can’t escape litigation over a fiery fatal double accident she started, Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on May 5.
Apple Inc. argues that providing the personal information of Illinois residents with Apple devices and accounts for discovery purposes violates their privacy in a lawsuit alleging its photo app collects and stores biometric identifiers through facial recognition technology.
BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois should copy states that reformed asbestos litigation, according to a report the Illinois Civil Justice League released on April 29.
Illinois has more local units of government than any other state in the country – so many that four separate tallies of them give four different numbers.The U.S.
Putting the public’s business on public display can help Illinois reform its culture of corruption and control government waste. An Illinois House bill will put more local government records online.
EAST ST. LOUIS – One hundred and two residents of other states who piggybacked on a suit against Johnson & Johnson in the Southern District of Illinois fell off on April 14, when Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel dismissed their claims.
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) joined U.S. House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and other members of Congress in a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, and the surrounding area.
EDWARDSVILLE – Former Madison County officials Robert Dorman and Douglas Hulme claim police from four cities interfered with their employment contracts by persuading county board members to vote for their termination.
Jeff Larner of Edwardsville has announced he will run for Madison County Sheriff, setting up a show down on the Republican ticket in the March 15, 2022 primary election.
