A housekeeper on Harrah's Metropolis Riverboat Casino filed a Jones Act suit in U.S. District Court claiming severe and permanent injuries from bending over, and raising back up again.
Selective Insurance removed a three-year-old class action pending in Madison County to federal court claiming a second amended complaint is so different from previous pleadings that it "commenced" a new action under the Class Action Fairness Act.
Lakin Law Firm attorneys have replaced a dead plaintiff in a six-year-old class action and a plaintiff who dropped out of a seven-year-old class action, but if defendants have their facts straight the new plaintiffs won't last long.
Dan Carpenter Car hauler Keith Yount, whose personal injury lawsuit turned the Madison County courthouse upside down, lives in Ohio and should file his suit there, according to the company that made the trailer he drove.
For a year and a half Lakin Law Firm attorneys pursued a goofy class action suit as if it might bring them more than national ridicule, but Madison County Circuit Judge Lola Maddox has put a stop to the foolishness.
Brad Lakin Attorney Rex Carr is appealing Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack's dismissal of a counter lawsuit filed against attorney Ed Unsell who represents clients in a highly publicized civil sexual assault lawsuit.
Gary Peel United States District Judge William Stiehl has set an evidentiary hearing Oct. 16 on former Lakin Law Firm attorney Gary Peel's motion in limine to suppress evidence to prevent federal prosecutors from introducing statements made by Peel in his proffer sessions of Jan. 31 and Feb. 14.
Five years after the Lakin Law Firm sued insurer AIG over the value of a wrecked truck, the firm still does not understand how AIG figured the value, according to AIG's latest brief.
William Clay Ford, Jr. Robert Schmieder of the Lakin Law Firm believed he could extract sworn testimony from Ford Motor Company boss William Clay Ford Jr., but Schmieder's idea turned out more as a delusion than a deposition.
Stephen McGlynn COLLINSVILLE-Candidates in the Fifth Appellate Court race offered contrasting views as wide as the geographical divide between the Saline County Democrat and the St. Clair County Republican in a forum Thursday morning.
Two men injured in an automobile accident in Jefferson County, Ill. filed a personal injury suit against the man who allegedly caused the accident and his employer.
For a while Armettia Peach and Ashley Peach looked like the most successful mother and daughter team since the Judds, but their act has lost its sizzle.
Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber has ordered the unsealing of two briefs that insurer AIG filed under seal in defending a proposed Lakin Law Firm class action.
Dan Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack threw out a proposed Lakin Law Firm class action against US Bank after discovering that the bank came out on the short end of the disputed transaction and the Lakin plaintiff came out ahead.
Gary Peel Last week indicted attorney Gary Peel filed a motion to suppress evidence to prevent federal prosecutors from introducing any and all oral statements and/or admissions made by Peel in his proffer sessions of Jan. 31 and Feb. 14.
Attention Wal-Mart shoppers: "This (gift) card may not be redeemed for cash."
"Only a person hoping to manufacture a lawsuit would find ambiguity in this language," wrote a Wal-Mart attorney seeking to dismiss a Madison County class action lawsuit over a $1.39 dispute.