EDWARDSVILLE - A legal dispute over an alleged shortfall in monies owed to a veterans' agency is continuing with county officials dismissing arguments that the plaintiffs should be granted summary judgment.
EDWARDSVILLE - A lawsuit accusing a city of violating the constitutional rights of residents over the failure to properly inform them when serving liens should be thrown out as it is argued the municipality is immune and the action is time barred.
EDWARDSVILLE - A Worden cafe and bar is seeking the dismissal of a wrongful death suit filed by a relative who allegedly perished from injuries suffered after falling from a deck.
ALTON – Taxpayers of this casino city have bet $47,500 that Fifth District appellate judges will overturn an order to issue a building permit for 40 apartments.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Alton and its Mayor Brant Walker must defend a claim that they blocked Ed Hightower’s Sunnybrook apartment development for racial reasons, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel ruled on Nov. 13.
Madison County's court system will participate in National Adoption Day on Nov. 23, where nationally, thousands of adoptions of children currently in foster care are finalized.
EDWARDSVILLE — After multiple continuances, a Madison County man's lawsuit against a Troy dentist that he claims botched his dental implants will go to trial next month, the judge in the case said in an order issued earlier this summer.
EDWARDSVILLE — Hearing is scheduled next month in an Alton-area contractor's settlement motion filed in the case of one of three people severely injured when a metal balcony fell away from a Alton apartment in 2016.
EDWARDSVILLE — A Madison County judge is pushing ahead with trial later this month in a Chinese-based shelving company's lawsuit against a dissolved storage company formerly located in Madison, despite the latter's request that the judge be substituted.
Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan granted a St. Louis law firm and two attorneys’ request to certify the question of whether or not punitive damages are recoverable in a legal malpractice suit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $785,000 jury verdict for former Midwest Sanitary Service employee Paul Crane Jr.
The lack of diversity of thought on Madison County's bench - by way of political affiliation - has the local GOP considering battle with those who get to pick the majority of judges at the Third Judicial Circuit.
Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan dismissed a lawsuit against asbestos plaintiff firm Gori Julian & Associates after the firm argued that it could not have breached a contract that ended by its own terms and conditions.
MOUNT VERNON -- In a case with its roots in a fatal traffic collision nearly two decades ago, the Fifth District Appellate Court has ruled in favor of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) despite failures by the agency to follow rules relating to expert witnesses and discovery.
WHEATON – Chicago investor Thane Ritchie identified two former prisoners as individuals involved in a suit that James Clayborne’s firm filed in Madison County, according to a defendant seeking sanctions over the suit.
The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts announced Friday that attorney Veronica Armouti has been appointed an associate in the Third Judicial Circuit to fill the vacancy left when former judge Jennifer Hightower was not reappointed to the bench.
A St. Louis law firm and two attorneys argue that Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan erred when he denied their motion to dismiss a legal malpractice suit alleging negligent representation resulted in a $785,000 jury verdict.
Madison County Board Chairman Kurt Prenzler and a former Highway Department employee each seek sanctions against the other for failing to comply with discovery in a suit alleging the county employee was improperly discharged.
BELLEVILLE – Former state senator and attorney James Clayborne, who claims Chicago investor Thane Ritchie owes his law firm more than $500,000, risked his reputation for the high profile hedge fund manager.
The mother of a boy who was allegedly injured at a Glen Carbon trampoline park has reached a $15,000 settlement with the defendant on the child’s behalf.
