Spomer The Fifth District Appellate Court reversed Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack who had denied arbitration in a case brought against A.G. Edwards and Sons.
Crowder The owner of the Moto Mart chain of convenience stores will appeal a September judgment entered against it in Madison County over a suit involving a patron's slip and fall.
A Highland surgeon will face a new trial after an appellate court denied his leave to appeal an order for that trial entered by Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder.
Motions to enforce a $125,000 personal injury verdict and to pay an expert witness in a rear-end accident case will be heard Jan. 8 by Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth.
Madison County Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian is scheduled to preside over the trial of a negligence case stemming from a 1999 accident near Wentzville, Mo.
Tom and Sara Buske concealed a premarital agreement from Madison County divorce court to keep household product maker S.C. Johnson from collecting a judgment against Tom Buske, according to S.C. Johnson lawyer Tom Keefe of Belleville.
Hylla One of the defendants in a suit over acne medicine Accutane has filed a motion for set-off in an attempt to reduce any future judgment that may be entered against him.
While the plaintiff in what would have been a two-week legal malpractice trial earlier this month filed a motion to amend, no details of his suit's settlement have been entered yet in the record.
Matoesian There have been no filings since May in a 2008 class action over faxed advertisements brought by an electric company that has several similar cases pending in Madison and St. Clair counties.
The bank that moved to reclaim a restaurant property owned in part by one of the parties in a high-profile Madison County divorce is moving to drop its foreclosure action.
Crowder The Fifth District Appellate Court has received an appeal brought by a Highland surgeon who won a medical negligence and wrongful death suit earlier this year in Madison County.
Hylla There will not be a third trial in a six year-old suit over an elderly man's fall that resulted in a mistrial the first time and a verdict of just under $150,000, the second time, in Madison County.
Akin With class action lawsuits on the rise in St. Clair County and the number of asbestos claims increasing in Madison County, the release of the 2009 "Judicial Hellholes" report provides a sobering reminder of how far the lawsuit reform movement has come, but also how much more work still needs to be done.
Hylla Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla is scheduled to hear a move for sanctions against an insurance company on allegations it paid a mentally ill woman to testify in a foot amputation trial.
The American Tort Reform Association's 2009 "Judicial Hellholes" report released today places Madison County and St. Clair counties on the group's "watch" list.