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EDWARDSVILLE – Lawyer Ryan Mahoney claims lawyer David Cates concealed almost $10 million in fees while they negotiated terms for ending their partnership in the Cates Mahoney firm of Swansea.
Americans overwhelmingly say they oppose allowing government offices that oversee elections to accept funding for their operations from partisan, private individuals and groups – Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. It’s a problem exposed in the 2020 election on which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife funded an astonishing $419 million in grants to county and municipal voting offices across America for essentially just that to support Democratic voter turnout. “Local election administration” grants are what supporters called it, but “Zucker Bucks” is what it’s more commonly called.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Chief U.S. Judge Nancy Rosenstengel rejected St. Clair County jurisdiction in a double death suit against Mead Johnson Nutrition on June 15.
BELLEVILLE – Brandon Wilson of Freeburg, who late last month allegedly killed Ashley Dancy of Belleville by driving drunk, had beaten a drunk driving ticket from 2020 by pleading guilty on a drunk driving ticket from 2017.
The plaintiffs representing Black and Latino voters argued Illinois Democrats’ new legislative maps are gerrymandered to break up voting blocs, diluting minority voting power during the next decade.
Republicans and Latino and Black advocates told a panel of federal judges that Illinois Democrats drew a new state legislative district map solely to protect Democratic incumbents and boost their party power, stepping on Black and Latino voting rights in the process.
Madison County Circuit Judge Sarah Smith awarded an Edwardsville homeowner $48,460.24 after granting default judgment against a design company that failed to provide cabinetry work or refund the plaintiff’s deposit.
Licensed hemp growers claim a group of individuals stole their products by creating a convincing, but “phony,” company selling commercial cannabis products.
Former Trump 2016 campaign advisor Carter Page can't use federal courts in Chicago, or anywhere, to sue the law firm of Perkins Coie for pushing Russian collusion story.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Democrats’ partisan legislative and judicial redistricting plans. He had repeatedly promised to veto any maps drawn by state lawmakers for their own benefit.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Former U.S. attorney Stephen Wigginton filed the last suit of his private practice in the wrong court, according to an order that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty issued on May 18.
