EAST ST. LOUIS – On Jan. 24, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn dismissed a claim of Maryville resident Deborah Floyd that Pepperidge Farm shouldn’t label crackers as “golden butter” because they also contain vegetable oils.
The Belleville Schnucks claims a customer caused her own injuries when she failed to keep a proper lookout before allegedly slipping on a foreign substance on the floor.
In-person learning will resume in the fall, the Illinois State Board of Education has decided. Whether kids will still be required to wear masks and sit behind plastic shields in the fall remains to be decided.
Madison County Circuit Judge Sarah Smith has granted a motion to withdraw sought by the plaintiff's attorney in a two-year old legal malpractice claim.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Eighteen months after Schnucks removed a slip and fall suit from Madison County to U.S. district court, plaintiff Elizabeth Jackson seeks to return to Madison County.
EDWARDSVILLE – A customer shopping at a Schnucks store in Bethalto alleges she suffered an injury to her left shoulder after slipping on a liquid and falling to the floor.
EDWARDSVILLE -- Lawyers sued over alleged legal malpractice are denying allegations, and another is indicating a settlement has been reached with the plaintiff.
EDWARDSVILLE (Madison County Record) — A Granite City property operation and retail establishment company is suing a Missouri-based grocery company, which laid off hundreds of employees about a year ago, alleging the defendant was significantly behind on rent of one of its stores.
BELLEVILLE – Four days after appellate judges told St, Clair County Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson to send a suit to the county where the injury happened, Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf sent a suit to the county where the injury happened.
There once was a time when southern Illinois' appellate court system provided cover for some of the most outlandish claims in the nation (retailer class actions awarding millions in fees to lawyers and coupons to consumers over disputes involving pennies comes to mind), with no aspect of commerce immune from litigation.
MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District appellate judges directed Twentieth Circuit Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson to transfer a shopper’s suit against Schnuck Markets from St. Clair County to Monroe County.
COLLINSVILLE – David Fields, who walked out of St. Clair County jail as a free man after jurors acquitted him of murder last year, lost his freedom on July 31.
Three attorneys are facing a lawsuit over allegations they failed to properly represent a man who believed he had a strong case following an icy fall at a grocery store.
BENTON -- District Judge J. Phil Gilbert rejected Schnucks’ Markets Inc.’s motion to dismiss its standing as a third-party defendant in a suit alleging a company truck driver suffered serious injury when the freight from his haul toppled on top of him as he prepared to unload.
SPRINGFIELD – Fifth District appellate court candidate Kevin Hoerner spent $14,496.90 on itemized bills at restaurants and taverns this year through Sept. 30, state election board records show.
Had things gone as planned at the Collinsville Area Recreation District (CARD), cash flowing from the registers at a golf course and water park and back into the district’s general revenue fund might have served as a model for other communities.
