MOUNT VERNON - A dead man allegedly told a tale with his last words as he named his killer on a 911 call to police, and the accused murderer's reaction to hearing the recording was relevant to the prosecution, according to the Illinois Fifth District Appeals Court.
An employee has failed to persuade an appeals court that his workers' compensation claim was linked to a new injury that happened in the course of his employment.
Fifth District Appellate Court Judge Judy Cates has announced she will seek election to the Illinois Supreme Court next year for the seat being vacated by retiring Justice Lloyd Karmeier.
MOUNT VERNON - A murderer has failed in a bid to over turn his conviction and sentence after an appeals court ruled a trial judge made no serious errors in advising a jury and prior to imposing a 65 year term.
MT. VERNON - Fifth District Appellate Court Justice David Overstreet of Mt. Vernon will seek election to the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020, for the seat being vacated next year by retiring Justice Lloyd Karmeier.
MT. VERNON - A man convicted of a double murder committed when he was 15 and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole should have another chance at re-sentencing, an appeals court has ruled.
MOUNT VERNON - An insurance company did not unreasonably delay a payout following a house fire because there was a real and true dispute over the amount, an appeals court has ruled.
Three young boys, a husband due to deploy overseas next fall, but she's in the race for a seat on the Illinois appeals panel covering 37 counties in the south of the state.
MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District Appellate Court Mark M. Boie of Union County, appointed to his seat last spring, said during a recent interview that he plans to run for his first full term in part to continue his hard work on the appellate bench.
MT. VERNON - An attempt to develop a class action over how a vehicle registration fee was included in purchase documents has failed after an appeals court affirmed a lower court's decision to throw out the action.
The Illinois Supreme Court will allow appeals from Bayer Corp., which is challenging mass action suits involving more than 150 non-Illinoisans over its contraceptive device Essure.
MOUNT VERNON -- The Fifth District Appellate Court has reversed Madison County Associagte Judge Martin Mengarellis in a ruling in which a father was declared unfit.
A lower court didn’t have jurisdiction 30 days after it entered into a final judgment, the Appellate Court of Illinois in the Fifth District determined as it ruled on a case concerning a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Justice Mark M. Boie announced his candidacy for a seat at the Fifth District Appellate Court currently held by Justice Melissa Chapman, who will retire effective Oct. 1.
The legal doctrine of absolute privilege could not protect Menards from paying out $20,000 to a man wrongly accused of shoplifting, because the company disputed his innocence in later legal filing, judges said.
Former St. Clair County circuit judge Milton S. Wharton will temporarily fill the seat of Fifth District Appellate Court Justice Melissa Chapman, who is retiring Oct. 2.
CHICAGO — Current and former Madison County officials did not violate a veterans assistance superintendent's constitutional rights when he was banned from the county's administration building in 2015, a federal appeals court affirmed last month.
