Hopkins The Nobel Committee has now made a once distinguished award an international joke. There have been honorees in the past recognized primarily as homage to their political views -- think of Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, or U.N. crook Kofi Annan -- but at least they had a lifetime of work in the leftist vineyards to deflect the critics' objection.
Schmieder Cincinnati Insurance and Cincinnati Casualty will pay Illinois medical providers at least $4,275,000 in a class action settlement that Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder approved on Sept. 3.
Lakin NEWARK, N.J. – Two Sprint cellular telephone customers disagree about Sprint's early termination fee but agree that a pending class action settlement won't do them any good.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Edwardsville lawyer Brian Wendler can't depose two witnesses he previously deposed in his defamation suit against insurer AIG, U.S. District Judge William Stiehl ruled on Aug. 19.
Stack Defendants in a dispute between a Godfrey attorney and his fellow comrades in class action suits are asking that the case be dismissed in two separate motions.
Tom Buske claims he needs $600,000 to defend himself against criminal charges that his trucking businesses stole millions from household product maker S.C. Johnson, and as the owners of S.C. Johnson see it he intends to spend their money on his defense.
Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack will be asked to grant preliminary approval to the settlement of a class action suit over improper Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) discounts Tuesday. .
The defendant in a suit over an off-brand version of the immune supplement Airborne claims more discovery time is needed before the class in a pending case can be certified.
Even President Barack Obama, liberal Democrat and longtime friend of the lawsuit industry, has acknowledged the obvious: doctors don't perform efficiently when they see patients as plaintiffs.
As the season of commencement ceremonies winds down and collegiate graduates go off to make their way in the world, I would like to recognize the Chicago Nine for giving us the CPS Six.
CLE Fest Classic 2009, a three-day "marathon" of continuing legal education programs hosted by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) this past year, plus new programming, will be held Thursday through Saturday, June 18 – 20, on-site at the ISBA Regional Office, 20 S. Clark Street, Suite 900, in Chicago, or via online webcast programming.
Lakin Brad Lakin lost about a fourth of his firm on May 4 as Charles Armbruster, Roy Dripps, John Winterscheidt and Michael Blotevogel set up their own shop in Alton.