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.
The owner of an Alton junkyard filed a legal malpractice suit against his former attorneys in Madison County Dec. 22, claiming they negligently failed to settle a case for $35,000, which led to a settlement that caused him to pay $155,000 more than he should have.
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.
Stephen Tillery GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) filed a motion asking Madison County Associate Circuit Judge Ralph Mendelsohn to enforce an injunction which would prohibit plaintiffs in a similar St. Clair County Paxil class action lawsuit from holding a certification hearing on Dec. 28.
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.
A Madison County family that was injured when pool chemicals exploded filed suit Dec. 4, claiming Makin Waves Pool failed to give proper instructions on how to use the chemicals.
Jeff Hebrank After deliberating several hours a Madison County jury reached a defense verdict, ruling that Michael Haskell's Parkinson's disease was not caused by manganese-containing welding fumes.
The trial lawyers re-seized lost Southern Illinois judicial turf last Tuesday night. So are they poised to start partying again in our courtrooms like it's 2003?
Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn allowed a Florida woman to intervene in a recently settled Paxil class action over the objection of attorney Stephen Tillery.
Attorneys in competing class action suits against GlaxoSmithKline's anti-depressant drug Paxil plan to file objections to a recent Madison County settlement.
Engineer Brian Wilgus, class representative in a class action suit over stock options, has asked Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack not to throw out his suit just because he did not exercise the options.