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Illinois Truth Team knocks 'great event' tweet after Frerichs and Callis event
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What Obama, Biden, and Callis all have in common
“Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine,” then-Senator Joe Biden declaimed in 2008, after being selected by then-Senator Barack Obama to be the junior partner on the Democratic ticket for the U.S. presidential election. “You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It’s a pretty -
What's in a name? Bobby's v. Bobbys in court June 6 on motion to enforce settlement
A decent English teacher will exhort the importance of proper apostrophe placement. And a bad grammar defense may be of little help for a defendant in a Madison County trademark suit. -
What’s the harm in resurrecting a 14-year-old lawsuit?
First, there was Westworld, the story of a harebrained scheme to get rich quick by re-creating a Wild West town and making lots of money from tourists eager to visit the theme park and turn fantasies into reality by mixing it up with live-action, three-dimensional barroom brawlers, salacious saloon girls, and fast-shooting gunslingers.With carefully-programmed robots playing the parts of the bad men -
Rudolf closes Lakin's avenues of appeal in summary judgment order
LakinSt. Clair County Associate Judge Heinz Rudolf closed two avenues of appeal from his decision that former lawyer Tom Lakin can’t deny he committed sex crimes with a 15 year old boy.In an April 30 order that followed an oral decision of March 25, Rudolf denied Lakin’s request to certify the decision as a question of law for appellate review.To grant the request, Rudolf would have needed to find -
Callis article was hypocritical
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Jail bond referendum lessons
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Asbestos causes lung cancer, not lawyers or advertising
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'Show me an asbestos company and I will find a tort'
Joseph Stalin’s infamous KGB chief, Lavrenti Beria, had a unique approach to justice. Instead of investigating a crime to find the culprit, he’d arrest the “culprit” first and create a crime to pin on him. “Show me the man,” he boasted, “and I will find the crime.” -
Expert speaks, objectivity takes a holiday
Dr. Barry Castleman is back, playing courtroom asbestos “expert” for the benefit of plaintiff’s lawyers. -
Plaintiffs expert denies writing letter to asbestos researcher during Madison County trial
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