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Amazon settles suit alleging imported electric socks caused death
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan, who granted default judgment against Chinese electric sock maker Global Vasion in a wrongful death suit in 2021, has set a hearing on Nov. 15 to determine damages. -
GeoSnapShot challenges jurisdiction in BIPA suit involving Tough Mudder photos
EAST ST. LOUIS – Australian photography website GeoSnapShot challenges Southern Illinois District jurisdiction over a complaint that it violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act. -
Former MC map and plat technician files discrimination complaint in federal court
EAST ST. LOUIS – Madison County employees taunted and harassed former map and plat technician Janice Koehler according to a suit Michael Gras of Brentwood, Mo. filed in U.S. district court on Dec. 12. -
Pay dispute involving Corrigan Brothers settles in Judge McGlynn's court
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn resolved a pay dispute between mechanical contractor Corrigan Brothers of St. Louis and former employee Michael Stone on Oct. 3. -
Julian announces endorsement from U.S. Senator; The former asbestos attorney has contributed to Durbin's coffers
Democrat Barry Julian announced on Aug. 23 that he has been endorsed for a Madison County circuit judgeship by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. -
Belleville attorney reinstated at Southern District of Illinois
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan reinstated attorney George Ripplinger of Belleville to the district’s admission roster on June 21. -
Trial involving Madison County jail suicide canceled, to be re-set
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan canceled trial that would have started June 13, on a claim of deliberate indifference at the Madison County jail. -
Dugan dismisses out-of-state plaintiffs in proposed class action against Zinus mattress
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan dismissed about 100 residents of other states from a potential class action over glass fibers escaping from mattresses on June 10. -
Dugan won’t expand wrongful death claim to include allegations Amazon protects Chinese suppliers from litigation
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan showed little interest in expanding a wrongful death claim into a claim that Amazon protects negligent Chinese suppliers from liability. -
Case dismissed: ‘No reasonable consumer equates strawberry Pop-Tarts with a bushel of fresh strawberries’
EAST ST. LOUIS – Kellogg doesn’t commit fraud by selling strawberry Pop-Tarts that include apple juice, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled on May 26. -
Casino Queen defendants turn on each other in pension plan ripoff litigation; Some shareholders cashed out multi millions in stock
EAST ST. LOUIS – Defendants in a suit over the collapse of Casino Queen’s pension plan turned on each other in U.S. district court on May 19. -
Belleville attorney seeks reinstatement at federal court to pursue legal malpractice claim
EAST ST. LOUIS – Attorney George Ripplinger of Belleville moved to reinstate his admission to U.S. district court on May 11, in order to carry on a client’s legal malpractice suit. -
Casino Queen plaintiffs seek document production in alleged pension plan ripoff
EAST ST. LOUIS – Former Casino Queen part owner James Koman hasn’t produced a single document to plaintiffs suing him over the sale of the property to employees as a pension plan, according to lawyer Michaell Yau of Washington. -
Amazon intentionally immunizes Chinese sellers from liability claims, lawyers for personal injury plaintiff argue
EAST ST. LOUIS – Amazon protects Chinese suppliers from liability, according to lawyers for a widow who can’t enforce a judgment she secured in a wrongful death suit at U.S. district court. -
Julian, Huddleston to run as Democratic write-in candidates for Madison County circuit judge
Madison County Circuit Judge candidates Ebony Huddleston and Barry Julian on Tuesday announced their intent to run as Democratic write-in candidates for the June 28 primary election. -
Petroff Trucking expected to settle claims over alleged destruction of remaining American Bottoms wetlands
EAST ST. LOUIS – Petroff Trucking, which dissolved while defending a claim that it destroyed wetlands along Cahokia Canal, would prefer settlement to judgment. -
Amazon calls attempt to get info on Chinese suppliers ‘xenophobic’ in electric sock wrongful death case
EAST ST. LOUIS – Amazon, defending a wrongful death suit alone after Chinese supplier Global Vasion defaulted, seeks protection from a question about the ability of its customers to obtain compensation for injuries from Chinese suppliers. -
Dugan grants defense summary judgment in claim against Nivea lotion
EAST ST. LOUIS – Two experts failed to connect Nivea firming hydration lotion to a consumer’s skin damage, U.S. District Judge David Dugan ruled on March 23. -
Arbitration, not class action, is route to settling youth’s Snapchat privacy dispute, Seventh Circuit rules
CHICAGO – U.S. District Judge David Dugan correctly enforced arbitration of a child’s class action claim that Snapchat violated the privacy of her face, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled on March 24. -
Lawyer for subcircuit law argues governor and legislators who abuse power can self-destruct; MC judicial vacancies will see contested races
SPRINGFIELD – Legislators who abuse their power over courts lose elections, Governor JB Pritzker’s lawyer argued at a court hearing on division of Madison County into three judicial subcircuits.