Tom Lakin In an effort to protect the identity and privacy of juvenile witnesses and victims in the criminal case against Tom Lakin, Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Clark wants the courtroom to be closed to the public when they testify.
Stephen Tillery Stephen Tillery must take a mighty leap to convince the Illinois Supreme Court that a new U.S. Supreme Court decision automatically revives his $10 billion class action against cigarette maker Philip Morris.
When Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack took over the court's massive asbestos docket in September 2004 he declared that the "astronomical burden" of looming trials demanded he dismiss cases that were not connected directly to Madison County.
Tillery Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have rendered a decision that will force the Illinois Supreme Court to restore a $10 billion judgment that class action attorney Stephen Tillery won against Philip Morris, according to Tillery.
Spomer The Fifth District Appellate Court reversed Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack in a case which would have allowed a Missouri statutory law to have been tried in an Illinois state court.
Lola Maddox The Fifth District Appellate Court affirmed a ruling by former Madison County Circuit Judge Lola Maddox that ordered an arbitration award of $5,781,082.67 against The Doctors' Company (TDC).
Attorneys for State Farm Fire and Casualty filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court asking that a Madison County class action suit be consolidated with a similar suit pending in Cook County.
Medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Madison County will now go through mediation if a newly created judicial review panel gives the go-ahead, according to an announcement released Monday by Chief Judge Ann Callis.
John Driscoll Attorney John Driscoll is asking Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to give his client a new trial, alleging the judge did not weigh all evidence when granting a directed verdict for Merck on one count of defective design during the county's first Vioxx trial.
While Charles Chapman represents the Lakin Law Firm in Madison County, Melissa Chapman delivers decisions in favor of the Lakin firm at the Fifth District appellate court.
James Thompson When Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron certified questions to the Fifth District Appellate Court about reopening a class action against Philip Morris, he might as well have certified his questions directly to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Richard Burke Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron, who once ordered Allstate Insurance attorney Troy Bozarth out of a hearing at the request of the Lakin Law Firm, passed up a chance to do it again.
Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron has asked the Fifth District appellate court whether new evidence could give him jurisdiction to reopen a class action case against Philip Morris that he was ordered to dismiss last year.