Fiss St. Clair County Circuit Judge Jan Fiss has been charged with illegal transportation of alcohol, according to a press release issued by acting Chief Judge John Baricevic this morning.
Attorney Gary Peel lost another court battle this week as U.S. District Judge William Stiehl ruled that the government will be able to hold a hearing to question the relevancy of an expert Peel's public defender hired in his criminal case.
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St. Louis attorney John Driscoll is asking the Fifth District Appellate Court to reverse a Madison County judge's decision that cuts him out of a class action pie.
Rex Carr A medical malpractice trial involving a wife and mother who died of malignant melanoma is under way in Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's court.
Texarkana federal courthouse Six weeks after attorneys in federal suits from seven districts agreed to centralize their suits at Texarkana, Texas, clerks at the Texarkana courthouse knew nothing of it.
Nick Byron The Illinois Appellate Court ordered Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron to allow a benzene defendant's motion for substitution of judge he denied last year.
Celestine Taylor filed suit against Hercules Tire and Rubber and Cooper Tire and Rubber in federal court Dec. 18, claiming Hercules Ultra Touring TR brand tires were not reasonably safe in design which caused her to lose control of her vehicle and crash.
Crowder It was a busy day for lawyers in the Paxil litigation in Madison County on Tuesday as a routine hearing to enforce an injunction branched into three separate, contentious hearings with two judges.
Bob Farmer, M.D. A graduate of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, who is a family practitioner in downstate Illinois, has donated 10,000 copies of his new book to the SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU (SCCI) in Springfield.
Judge Stack Attorney Lanny Darr wants to carry on a class action suit on behalf of uninsured hospital patients with a plaintiff whose hospital bill was covered by insurance.
Tom Lakin represented Earnshaw in wrongful death suit Bethalto internist Charles Earnshaw, M.D. is facing a load of legal troubles, not the least of which is a Dec. 11 DUI hearing before Madison County Associate Circuit Judge Janet Heflin.
The day before he was to be sworn in as St. Clair County Circuit Judge, Patrick M. Young, 58, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to yield by a Belleville Police Department patrolman.