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Seventh Circuit reverses Rosenstengel in reverse discrimination case
CHICAGO – Crane oiler Terry Deets deserves a trial on his claim that his skin color cost him a job on the Stan Musial Bridge project, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled last month. -
Busybodies can be hazardous to our freedoms
Maybe our real problem is not how much we're paid or how healthy our lifestyles are. Maybe our real problem is the people who think they know what's best for us. -
Chicago Public Schools pull bond sale
Chicago Public Schools, or CPS, needs to issue $875 million in long-term bonds to help the district avoid bankruptcy – but on Jan. 27, the school district backed out of the planned sale. -
Cook suit seeks judicial review of Elections Board decision in favor of judges
Dallas Cook, whose objection to the ballot status of St. Clair County judges failed at the Illinois election board, seeks court orders against the judges. He petitioned the Sangamon County court for judicial review on Jan. 25, five days after the election board denied his objection by a vote of four to four. “There is no process in the Illinois Constitution for a judge to succeed oneself by re-election,” wrote his lawyer, Aaron Weishaar of St. Louis. -
Woman alleges creditor's repeated calls to cell phone violate federal law
BENTON – A Cairo woman is suing over an egregious breach of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act by a finance company. Ruthoni Cornelius filed the suit Dec. 21 in the Benton Division of the Southern District of Illinois against Regions Financial Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama. On Jan. 4, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that autodialed or prerecorded message calls to a wireless number by a credit are permitted only if the called party gives prior consent. W -
Gary Peel: Sentence on bankruptcy fraud, child pornography possession should have ended already
ASHLAND, Ky. – Former lawyer Gary Peel, serving the ninth of 12 years for bankruptcy fraud and possession of child pornography, seeks immediate release. -
AFP Illinois says tax reduction responsible for state's improved ranking in tax climate survey
According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation’s 2016 Business State Tax Index, Illinois leaped 8 spots, from 31st to 23rd. -
Illinois by the numbers: 6,963
Do you ever get the feeling that every time you turn around in Illinois some government official is grabbing you by the shirt collar and demanding your lunch money? -
Former Prenda attorney appeals sanction order in Lightspeed case
U.S. District Judge David Herndon issued an order on Aug. 10 staying sanctions against three attorneys who he says obstructed discovery in a computer hacking case involving porn sites, pending an appeal by sanctioned attorney John Steele. -
Chicago attorney Paul Duffy dies
Attorney Paul Duffy was pronounced dead at the age of 55 on Monday at 10 a.m. at Stroger Hospital in Chicago. -
Fifth District reverses conviction of man accused of shoplifting coats at Macy's
MOUNT VERNON – Shoplifting suspect Joshua Mueller won a new trial from Fifth District appellate judges who found his first trial too sloppy to sustain. They reversed his conviction on July 17, finding flaws throughout his trial at Jackson County courthouse in Murphysboro. -
Three attorneys caught in their own tangled web
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! -
Three attorneys caught in their own tangled web
Oh what a tangled web we weave, -
Fairview Heights drug house reduced to a pile of rubble
Demolished remains of 20 Kassing Dr. -
The luck of the Irish has limits
Once, the road rose up to meet Paul Duffy and the wind was always at his back. The sun shone warm upon his face and rains fell soft upon his fields. But lately his luck seems to have gone dry.