State Farm has indicated it will appeal St. Clair County Associate Judge Randall Kelley’s finding that it owes a duty to defend Tom Lakin and his son Kristopher Lakin in a sexual abuse case involving minors.
SPRINGFIELD – Attorney Paul Weiss of Chicago, who rode the crest of the class action wave in Madison County, has lost his law license for a long time. On July 23, a review board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission suspended him for 30 months and until further order.
Brace yourself, southern Illinois, there's going to be an open seat race for the Fifth District Appellate Court next year.Justice Bruce Stewart recently announced that he will not seek retention to another 10-year term in the 2016 general election.
SPRINGFIELD — State employees can keep getting their regular paychecks for the near future, another state court has ruled. In a ruling entered Friday, the Fifth District Appellate Court refused to overturn a circuit court’s order that state employees continue to be paid — despite the lack of a state budget — while those employees pursue a lawsuit.
SPRINGFIELD – Two lawsuits over union fees on Illinois state employees who don’t belong to unions have stopped in their tracks, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken a parallel case into its hands.
SPRINGFIELD — A pair of court decisions issued Friday means state Comptroller Leslie Munger can keep meeting the state’s payroll — for now. Munger and Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration have argued the state should be allowed to make its regular payroll despite the lack of a state budget.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants St. Clair County circuit judge Robert LeChien to admit he shouldn’t have let lawyers for state comptroller Leslie Munger argue against her lawyers in his court.
The Fifth District Appellate Court reversed a judgment from Madison County Circuit Judge Andreas Matoesian’s courtroom involving a wrongful death action allegedly arising from a sprained ankle and remanded the case for a new trial.
SPRINGFIELD – Attorney General Lisa Madigan is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to put her in charge of the comptroller. Madigan continues to represent comptroller Leslie Munger without Munger’s consent, seeking orders Munger would rather not follow. On Monday, Madigan filed a motion for direct appeals of court orders on payment of state employees. “As the officer tasked by the Illinois Constitution with processing payments of public funds, the comptroller needs this court’s guidance,” deput
Justices granted review to eight California teachers on June 30, in their First Amendment challenge to amounts they pay under collective bargaining law. A Supreme Court decision would likely resolve a federal suit challenging union charges on Illinois state employees, according to attorney general Lisa Madigan.
St. Clair County Circuit Judge Robert LeChien ordered Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger to pay 43,000 state employees on July 15, despite the lack of a state appropriation. At a hearing on July 9, LeChien said he would adopt findings of fact and conclusion of law that public employee union counsel Stephen Yokich of Chicago proposed.
The Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee will hear comments July 22 at a public hearing in Chicago on several proposals, including one calling for changes to the rules that govern the legal profession and another seeking to use a word count instead of a page limit to regulate the length of appellate briefs. Other proposed changes deal with Supreme Court rules on amicus curiae briefs, certified questions, preparation of appeals, review of administrative orders and admission to the practice of
While Madison County circuit judges denied retention to five associate judges, circuit judges in all other Illinois counties denied it to only three. The gap between Madison County’s 62 percent retention rate and 99 percent elsewhere illustrates the force of the judicial earthquake in Madison County. Associate judges Duane Bailey, Ben Beyers, Donald Flack, David Grounds and Elizabeth Levy all failed to win three fifths of the votes of circuit judges. Eight Madison County associ
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier has agreed to release four years of electronic messages to lawyers pursuing an $8 billion claim that State Farm corruptly secured his election in 2004. U.S.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier will speak at the 46th Annual Patriotic Ceremony on Saturday to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day as well as well as the day Illinois’ first state capital was liberated from the British by American Colonel George Rogers Clark.
Pamela Harris of Lake County said Tuesday she was thrilled to hear the U.S. Supreme Court would hear the case of Rebecca Friedrichs, a California schoolteacher who doesn’t want to pay mandatory “fair share” dues to a union
After five associate judges were not reappointed in Madison County, Chief Judge David Hylla has retained two retired judges from the Third Judicial Circuit.
The assumption of an online moniker may not be enough to allow online commenters to remain cloaked in anonymity and exempt from a defamation action, should they use their moniker in an online forum to unjustifiably accuse another person of a crime, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. On Thursday, June 18, the state’s high court unanimously upheld the rulings of both a Stephenson County judge and the Illinois Second District Appellate Court, which had both held Internet service provider Comcas
Qualified lawyers who want to be Madison County judges have about a month to apply for five vacancies. The positions are available because the elected nine circuit judges of the Third Judicial Circuit in a recent vote did not reappoint Associate Judges Duane L.
