MOUNT VERNON – Former St. Clair County circuit judge Vincent Lopinot failed to ask necessary questions before approving settlement of a class action against Body Shop stores, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Sept. 6.
MOUNT VERNON – St. Clair County Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson improperly granted judgment against metal recycler Cerro Flow Products as a sanction in a discovery dispute, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Sept. 6.
MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District appellate court Justice Melissa Chapman will retire on Oct. 1, leaving a single Democrat on a bench where that party held six of seven seats upon her arrival 18 years ago.
MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District appellate judges directed Twentieth Circuit Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson to transfer a shopper’s suit against Schnuck Markets from St. Clair County to Monroe County.
MOUNT VERNON — The Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court has determined Illinois Eastern Community Colleges trustees can be sued under the Illinois False Claims Act.
MOUNT VERNON — The Fifth District Appellate Court has turned down a recently released felon's request for parental rights over a child whom he has barely seen and does not support.
MOUNT VERNON – The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed Madison County Chief Judge William Mudge’s order denying transfer in a legal malpractice suit alleging a medical malpractice case was negligently voluntarily dismissed.
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.
MOUNT VERNON -- The Fifth District Appellate Court has ruled that Madison County Associate Judge Clarence Harrison erred in stopping the closure of a bridge leading to a golf course and allowing a recreation district to carry out repairs.
MOUNT VERNON -- An appeals court has ruled that a man found guilty of battering a newborn baby was properly convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment totaling 24 years.
MOUNT VERNON – Appellate judges stopped a St. Clair County trial against metal recycler Cerro Flow after Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson granted judgment on liability and prepared to determine damages.
MOUNT VERNON – A state appeals court recently declined to reverse the 2015 conviction of a St. Charles man regarding a lien he attempted to record alleging U.S. Bank owed him $400,000 for two properties he lost to foreclosure proceedings almost 25 years ago.
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. -- A woman was not the target of an individual's alleged "stalking" and therefore an order by a trial court was incorrect, an appeals court has ruled.
The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed Madison County Associate Judge Neil Schroeder's order dismissing a postconviction petition filed by a man convicted in connection with a murder during a botched robbery.
A man serving a 10-year sentence for escaping from police custody after being arrested for stealing "several" ink cartridges from Walmart has failed in his bid to have a guilty plea withdrawn.
MOUNT VERNON – The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed St. Clair County Circuit Judge Zina R. Cruse's ruling denying a petition for post-conviction relief field by a man who was sentenced to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder.
BELLEVILLE – Monsanto has answered questions of Fifth District appellate judges about settlement of 11,256 pollution claims, Bruce Cook argued for Monsanto at a May 22 hearing.
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. – A panel of judges denied an appeal from Gregory Nelson, who was convicted of an attempted first-degree murder of officer William Owen in June 2015, further reinstating his 50-year sentence in a May 16 ruling.
