U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle won’t let former federal judge Patrick Murphy invade her judicial province as an expert witness. On March 15, Yandle barred Murphy from testifying at trial about the negligence of a lawyer or the interpretation of procedural rules.
Robert P. LeChien, running for six more years as a St. Clair County circuit judge, hasn’t carried a circuit judge’s workload for a year. Chief Judge John Baricevic stopped assigning civil law actions to LeChien last March, after litigants moved for substitute judges 38 times in 102 days.
The owner of a downtown Belleville building that burned to the ground in May 2010 is arguing at trial that he should be paid an additional $1.6 million for property loss and $1.64 in punitive damages from State Farm Insurance Co.
MOUNT VERNON – Illinois judges can approve national settlements of class actions without any connection between the state and plaintiffs in other states, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Feb. 9.
Investigator Doug Wojcieszak, whose reports form the basis of corruption claims against Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, might not take the stand at trial on that subject. Lawyers who paid him for evidence that State Farm secretly financed Karmeier’s campaign in 2004 have abruptly reduced his status to potential witness.
State Farm and Computype have reached a settlement agreement in a suit alleging an accountant suffered damages when the computer company failed to replace a hard disk drive while repairing the machine.
State Farm can give Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier any confidential documents that it has given to plaintiffs in an $8 billion racketeering suit, U.S.
A woman alleging injuries following a Glen Carbon vehicle accident is asking the court to sanction the defense counsel after they allegedly violated two orders in limine during trial last week.
Two car accident lawsuits went to trial this week in the Madison County Circuit Court. Judges Dennis Ruth and Tom Chapman are presiding over the cases.
SPRINGFIELD – Lawyer Stephen Tillery wants all Illinois Supreme Court Justices except Lloyd Karmeier to consider restoring a $10 billion judgment he won against cigarette maker Philip Morris in 2003. On Nov. 17, Robert King of Tillery’s firm moved to recall a mandate the Court issued against the judgment in 2005. King also moved for Karmeier’s recusal or disqualification, citing an objective and reasonable public perception of his bias in favor of Philip Morris.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier has been ordered to produce by Dec. 1 a timeline he prepared for a Springfield radio interview following last year's contentious retention race. U.S.
A list of recent St. Clair County foreclosures. Including Belleville, Cahokia, Collinsville, Columbia, Fairview Heights, Marissa, New Baden, Shiloh, Summerfield, Swansea and Trenton.
NEW YORK CITY and EAST ST. LOUIS – Actions that Alton asbestos lawyer John Simmons took six and 12 years ago have stuck him in the spotlight of a criminal corruption trial in New York and an $8 billion corruption claim in Illinois. In New York, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has served a subpoena for documents about Simmons in preparation for his trial, set to start on Nov. 2. Physician Robert Taub, who received the subpoena, told the court that Silver could get the documents from fede
Doug Wojcieszak, an investigator for lawyers suing State Farm over its role in the 2004 campaign of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, canceled a deposition about his investigation on five days notice. State Farm counsel Joseph Cancila of Chicago reported the cancellation to U.S.