Crowder Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder will hear arguments in favor of the settlement of a long-running mortgage interest fee class action.
Goldenberg MOUNT VERNON – John Hopkins and Mark Goldenberg must defend themselves against a legal malpractice claim in Cairo, Fifth District appeals judges ruled on Feb. 11.
Stack Although sympathetic to an attorney who claims he was gypped out of class action fees, Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack still threw out a third amended breach of contract claim on Tuesday.
Burke Belleville area chiropractor Kathleen Roche is attempting to adjust three class action suits filed in two counties to her favor, despite settlement of one, the potential dismissal of a second and a motion to dismiss a third.
Unsell The civil sexual abuse and conspiracy lawsuit brought against former Wood River attorney Lowell Thomas Lakin, his two sons and his law firm, has not moved in two years.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Class action expert Don Kovacic plans to swear that tax preparer H & R Block shouldn't sell peace of mind, but apparently his wife made him buy it.
Marks Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla is set to hear preliminary arguments in favor of settling a long-running class action case against mortgage lender Countrywide Home Loans on Jan. 20.
Marks Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla is slated to hear motions in a six year-old class action over improper fees a mortgage lender allegedly charged.
Crowder Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder has postponed a legal malpractice trial against the former Hopkins Goldenberg firm from Oct. 13 to Nov. 30.
Burke NEWARK – U.S. District Judge Jose Linares has chosen not to disqualify Richard Burke of St. Louis and Paul Weiss of Chicago as class counsel in a suit they settled with telephone company Sprint.
Burke A third and final fairness hearing is scheduled for Aug. 25 in Madison County over a disputed class action settlement against an insurer that allegedly operated a "silent" Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) that deprived health care providers of monies.
Rick Jones exits the federal courthouse in Benton after sentencing. He remains free on bond and does not have to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons until Oct. 22. BENTON – U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert sentenced former Triad Industries owner Ricki Lee Jones of Wood River to 15 months in prison for tax evasion on July 30.
$1.25 million to charity. $10,000 to serial plaintiff Lawrence Shipley. $650,000 to demanding lawyers. That's the settlement proposed for a five-year-old Lakin Law Firm-spawned class action suit which is back in Madison County court this week for another swing at resolution.
Jones and Lakin Six months after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges, Ricki Jones of Wood River will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert in federal court in Benton at 10 a.m., July 16.
The defendant admits no guilt, but agrees to pay an unnamed charity $1.2 million. The plaintiffs get zilch. And the Lakin law firm lawyers pocket $650,000 in fees and expenses.
Stack American Family Mutual Insurance wants Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to admit he might have made a mistake in appointing substitute plaintiffs for a class action five years after the death of the original plaintiff.