Once, the road rose up to meet Paul Duffy and the wind was always at his back. The sun shone warm upon his face and rains fell soft upon his fields. But lately his luck seems to have gone dry.
CunninghamBelleville attorney John Cunningham was Madison County's winningest civil defense attorney in 2014.In a review of Law Division cases at trial last year, Cunningham won three cases in which the plaintiff had sought more than $50,000 in damages.Cunningham, a shareholder at Brown & James in Belleville, specializes in the areas of first-party insurance claims and tort law, including arson
William Cosby of East St. Louis, convicted of murder in the court of heroin addict Michael Cook, cleared his name and won his freedom in a new trial with a sober judge. St. Clair County jurors found Cosby not guilty in the death of Antwan “Twix” Thomas on Dec. 19, after four days of testimony before Circuit Judge Robert Haida. Cosby took the witness stand, a rare move for a murder defendant, and testified
Circuit Judge John Barberis Jr. presided over the first six-person civil jury trial in Madison County since former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill into law shrinking jury sizes for civil cases from 12 jurors to six.
The law firm pursuing a bid rigging class action suit against St. Clair County, its Treasurer Charles Suarez and others in federal court, has filed suit in state court seeking production of the Treasurer's surety bonds.
CuetoToxic exposure suits that lay dormant for four years sprang into action this year and multiplied into thousands in St. Clair County circuit court.Cerro Flow Products, a recycler of copper in Sauget, faces 22 exposure suits that started in 2009 and 2010, plus 113 new suits with up to 99 plaintiffs in each.Cerro advised Chief Judge John Baricevic in June that, “The mediation between Cerro and the