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Baker Sterchi hires Odom and Kane at Belleville office, focusing on toxic torts and more
Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC has enhanced its Belleville presence with the addition of attorneys Greg Odom and Meghan Kane. Both join Baker Sterchi from the Edwardsville office of HeplerBroom. -
Karmeier will retire from Illinois Supreme Court next year
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, 79, who was first elected to his seat on the state's high court in 2004, will retire next December. -
Grandone named to Chicago Bar Association task force on 'sustainable practice of law"
The Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation’s Task Force on the Sustainable Practice of Law and Innovation has appointed James M. Grandone of Edwardsville as a member. -
Cook County judge: Walmart, other employers can't look to IL constitution for protection from biometrics class actions
Illinois’ state constitution offers no escape valve for employers facing a blizzard of class action lawsuits under the state's biometrics privacy law, a Cook County judge ruled, rejecting an attempt by Walmart to sidestep one of those lawsuits. -
Logistics company seeks removal of class action to federal court
EAST ST. LOUIS - A logistics company has asked a federal court to take over a class action that claims employees' biometric data was unlawfully collected and stored. -
Double murderer sentenced to natural life while a juvenile to get another re-sentencing hearing
MT. VERNON - A man convicted of a double murder committed when he was 15 and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole should have another chance at re-sentencing, an appeals court has ruled. -
Cahokia police pension board votes to hire accounting firm to calculate former chief Watson’s numbers
CAHOKIA – St. Clair County sheriff Rick Watson let lawyer Leah Captain speak for him at a police pension board meeting on Oct. 16, when trustee Francella Jackson asked him how he came up with the numbers for his pension. -
Report: Justice Anne Burke ruled on 10 Supreme Court cases involving clients of her indicted husband
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke declined to recuse herself from at least 10 cases involving clients of Klafter & Burke, the private law firm co-owned by her husband, Ald. Ed Burke, a report states. -
Judge denies stay in FCC license revocation proceedings involving grim reaper of radio
WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge Jane Halprin denied a stay of license revocation proceedings against Bob Romanik, grim reaper of radio, on Oct. 4. -
ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT: Illinois Supreme Court Appoints Doscotch as Circuit Judge in Tenth Judicial Circuit
Justice Thomas L. Kilbride and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Christopher R. Doscotch as a Resident Circuit Judge in the Tenth Judicial Circuit. -
'Embrace the chaos,' judge, national guard colonel, after announcing bid for appeals court position
Three young boys, a husband due to deploy overseas next fall, but she's in the race for a seat on the Illinois appeals panel covering 37 counties in the south of the state. -
Nearly 12,000 Illinois educators have stopped paying teachers' unions
Educators across the state are exercising their rights, with 12,000 fewer public school employees sending dues or fees to teachers unions today than before the Janus v. AFSCME ruling. -
Alleged college rape victim allowed to move forward with complaint against one defendant, action against SIUE, staff dismissed
BENTON - A lawsuit claiming a university and staff members did not respond adequately to a rape allegation by a student has been dismissed following a motion by defendants. -
Impeaching a precedent
BMS won’t be much of a precedent if it’s stretched to the point of meaninglessness. -
Appointed appellate Justice Boie seeks first full term
MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District Appellate Court Mark M. Boie of Union County, appointed to his seat last spring, said during a recent interview that he plans to run for his first full term in part to continue his hard work on the appellate bench. -
RiverBend Growth Association urges renewal of Lewis & Clark college president's $337,000 contract
Tight vote expected Tuesday -
To Lance Callis: The Parting Glass
Felix Lance Callis was born in Granite City on August 12, 1935, and died in St. Louis on September 25, 2019 at the age of 84. These are the bare biographical facts, but as in most men of greatness, there lies so much more. -
Duebbert's case goes before Illinois Courts Commission; Context of St. Clair County politics off limits
CHICAGO - Court commissioners responsible for the future of Circuit Judge Ron Duebbert examined him on Oct. 1, without examining poitics of St. Clair County. -
Woman's petition seeking to expunge baseball bat attack conviction, or seal case rejected at Fifth District
A woman convicted of attempted murder who served her sentence is not eligible for expungement and her application for sealing was premature, an appeals court has ruled. -
Motion to secure health records of youth suing for negligence granted, but only in part
EDWARDSVILLE – A move to secure the health records of a teenager who claims he suffered an injury while working as a youth chaperone has been granted, but only in part.