It is not unusual for justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to serve into their 80s. Appointment to the Court by the President of the United States is a life-time appointment and it is assumed -- and hoped -- that a justice will decide when it's time to step down.
Cueto Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder is scheduled to hear motions in a lawsuit filed by disbarred attorney Amiel Cueto against a St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist, his employer and five other defendants.
Bailey MOUNT VERNON – Madison County Associate Judge Duane Bailey unreasonably prevented household product maker S.C. Johnson from pursuing a Wisconsin judgment in Wisconsin, Fifth District appeals judges ruled on June 18.
Murnane SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court's recent ruling against mandatory a state law barring judges from running for retention after age 75 has drawn criticism from the state's leading civil justice group.
Murnane The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co. is certain to re-kindle talk of the 2004 Illinois Supreme Court election in which Justice Lloyd Karmeier defeated former Appellate Justice Gordon Maag in the Fifth Illinois District in Southern Illinois.
Ben-Shahar In his years of studying mandates on product disclosures and other parts of consumer protection law, Omri Ben-Shahar has come to realize one thing.
Copland WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision said West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin should have stepped aside in a case involving Massey Energy.
Hopkins Fairness dictates that the face of the Supreme Court change, expand with the evolving American society. Doors formerly closed are rightfully opened, places set for those previously ignored. But contrary to the White House spin, Sotomayor is not the best for the job, not even the best Latino candidate.
O'Connor Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor remembers when she ran for her first judgeship in her home state of Arizona. That experience – and her respect for the Founding Fathers – has made her a staunch advocate for reforming how states pick the men and women who sit as judges.
Here's the surest and fastest way for the State of Illinois to enact a sweeping reform that will attract positive national attention, eliminate some of the millions of dollars that are spent on campaigns by "special interests," and will do what more than 65% of the voters in all corners of Illinois would like to see happen.
Maag Former appellate judge Gordon Maag has discovered that a Texas lawyer defending E.I. Du Pont de Nemours in a Madison County benzene lawsuit failed to report that Texas regulators sanctioned him in 1995.
One of the top five lawyer ads "that make any Supreme Court candidate look brilliant" is a St. Louis-based Brown & Crouppen commercial, according to Esquire magazine.
Cueto MOUNT VERNON - Seeking to reinstate his lawsuit against the Madison County Record, disbarred attorney Amiel Cueto told a panel of judges at the Fifth District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon that the newspaper tried to "frame" him for the same kind of crime for which he had been wrongfully convicted.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission has denied Granite City attorney Thomas Hildebrand's petition for reinstatement to practice law.
Cueto Oral arguments will be heard at the Fifth District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon on Wednesday in a defamation suit filed in 2006 by Amiel Cueto against the Madison County Record.
United State Supreme Court WASHINGTON - The majority of Americans say they are in no hurry for President Barack Obama to specifically appoint a minority or a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, a poll indicates.
A new report finds that Madison County ranks behind only Cook County for litigation filings statewide, even though it has about a twentieth of the population.
Karmeier Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier will preside and administer the attorney's oath when 115 new attorneys are admitted to practice in a ceremony in Collinsville on May 7.
Hartley With major American corporations sagging under the weight of billions in asbestos-related lawsuits, Congress set out in 1994 to provide a reasonable way for companies to limit their liability to asbestos victims.