Madison County employee Jim Corey of Edwardsville waves at one of the many "honking" cars supporting strikers. He works for the assessor's office.
The long anticipated strike by 447 American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 799 union members started today as workers and county officials failed to reach an agreement.
A two-hour negotiation session with a federal mediator failed to resolve a contract dispute between Madison County workers and administration officials on Tuesday.
Judge Janis Graham Jack In February, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack of Texas characterized thousands of lawsuits filed by people claiming illness from asbestos and silica exposure as raising "great red flags of fraud."
Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran's swift handling of 116 cases one recent morning was punctuated by a strange last matter, Wiley Yates v. Thomas Hildebrand, in which the imprisoned plaintiff claims he received a longer sentence because of a lawyer's malice.
Among the many pending Vioxx class action lawsuits filed in Madison county, one instigated by Earl Gori of Madison County and Michael Elward of Wabash County, Ind. will be in court Sept. 28, for a case management conference and Merck's motion to transfer.
It took a Madison County jury just three hours to clear a Granite City man of any wrongdoing in an auto accident in which a 17-year-old girl was injured.
Judges like St. Clair County’s John Baricevic would have you think barbarians pound at the gates of their chambers, insidious forces of evil trying to undermine our justice system and pillage the people of Illinois.
Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran has recused himself from a class action lawsuit filed by a plaintiff who frequently appears before the court--Alton attorney Lanny Darr.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" won the oscar for best picure in 1975, along with acting awards for Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher respectively, and two other awards for direction and screenplay.
Circuit Judge Dan Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack has reduced a once-heavy national class action suit against American Family Mutual Insurance even further from 17 states down to a trim 12.
Saint Anthony’s Health Center in Alton has removed a Madison County class action suit to federal court after establishing that the proposed class could include Medicare and Medicaid patients.
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Discount Decorating Outlet in Fairview Heights and two of its employees are being sued by a customer whose foot was injured when a shelf was dropped on it.
Ending a near three-month drought of class action lawsuits since a restrictive federal law was enacted, Alton plaintiff’s attorney Lanny Darr filed suit against Affirmative Insurance Company because it would only reimburse him $18.90 per day for a rental vehicle.
Delaware Superior Court. Judge Slights is pictured first in top row. WILMINGTON, Delaware - On the fourth day of a nationally significant asbestos trial, the lawyers settled, the jury turned into a focus group and the judge decided to rewrite his case management order.