Adomite The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform released its seventh-annual Harris Poll surveying senior attorneys at America's largest companies. Illinois ranked 46th overall, putting our state in the Top Five of worst legal climates. West Virginia ranked last and Delaware first, in case anyone is keeping track.
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Supreme Court won't disturb Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn's plan to hold hearings nine days apart on transfer of venue and class certification in Stephen Tillery's suit against drug maker Pfizer.
Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced a new feature on the court's website to help increase awareness about how Illinois government works
Byron Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron cancelled a May 1 hearing at which he planned to decide whether mutual fund shareholders own the assets of mutual funds.
Larry Hepler ConocoPhillips filed a motion to dismiss a benzene complaint alleging it contains insufficient facts and pleads numerous legal conclusions without a factual basis.
For $16 million, Shell Oil and Premcor Refining Group have arranged to settle all claims that their refinery operations polluted the village of Hartford.
Donohue Madison County's judicial system has improved, according to a national survey of corporate lawyers, but Illinois remains among the worst legal climates in the nation.
A well-known area obstetrician who has been sued seven times in the past five years is asking a Madison County judge to dismiss a medical malpractice case.
Thomas Maag's mugshot from the Granite City Police Department. A hearing on Edwardsville attorney Thomas Maag's motion to suppress evidence in a misdemeanor case that alleges he solicited a prostitute has been rescheduled until 10 a.m. on April 29.
Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron doesn't know how long he will wear his robe, but he might have time to earn distinction as the first American judge to rule that investors in a mutual fund own the assets of the fund.
Moran MOUNT VERNON - In a 2-1 split decision, the Fifth District Appellate Court in Mt. Vernon affirmed former Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran's decision to grant summary judgment in favor an eight-year-old boy injured while riding his bike.
Stack A panel of three appellate judges will hear arguments at 10 a.m. on March 31, in a Madison County medical malpractice trial in which a Troy family doctor was cleared of negligence.
Stewart MOUNT VERNON – Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron can proceed with a 48-state class action against telephone company Sprint, the Fifth District appellate court has decided.
Two local businesses want Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to redistribute $90 million that Illinois Bell Telephone refunded to business customers in 2001, but so far Stack has not relished the Robin Hood role they offer.