While class action members were waiting for justice in the form of a properly tuned television set, the lawyers who represented them wanted more than the $2.3 million Madison County Circuit Judge Phillip Kardis allowed.
Presiding last week over a notorious case in a notorious place, Madison County Judge Phillip J. Kardis took time to praise one lawyer for his “tremendous efforts” while assailing another for talking with the media.
A trial date for Michael O'Brien, an Illinoisan suffering from mesothelioma, has been set exactly a year after the former sheet metal and postal worker was diagnosed with a deadly disease caused by asbestos exposure.
The family of a Collinsville man who was stabbed to death in the city's VFW on Feb. 28 is seeking $1.3 million from the bar owners and the men charged with his murder.
On Nov. 8, 1935, United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis joined forces with a dozen fellow labor leaders to announce the creation of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO). An affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the CIO was charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.