Akin A national survey of CEOs from Chief Executive Magazine was just released and the State of Illinois is ranked the third worst state in the country to do business. Only New York and California fared worse than the Land of Lincoln.
Spomer An appellate court judge says he would favor law eradicating forum shopping by limiting venue to the county or counties where the action takes place.
Evans With just days to go before the March 20 primary election, State Rep. Paul Evans (R-O'Fallon) took a big swing at rival Don Weber of Troy claiming he accepted asbestos referral fees from the SimmonsCooper law firm several years ago while on the public payroll.
Hopkins In the end, to be Catholic means in part to be in the secular world, but not necessarily part of it. It means that no matter any practical, monetary or temporary advantage a governmental action which is in opposition to established core beliefs cannot be supported or reconciled. It means that elected officials who support such obscenities must be defeated.
Crowder The Third Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee on March 1 trained 23 attorneys to aid them in giving free legal advice at the Legal Advice Conference Center in the Law Library at the Madison County Courthouse.
Madison County Chairman Alan J. Dunstan is requesting the State of Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board conduct a review to determine if recent contributions made to Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's campaign committee violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct.
Tom Lakin East Alton attorney Ed Unsell has filed a motion to lift a stay on a civil lawsuit pending against L. Thomas Lakin that accuses Lakin of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.
Bartolacci A St. Clair County bank has removed a putative class action lawsuit filed against it to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, alleging it will be forced to pay more than $5 million to customers if a judge decides against it.
Hylla Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla is set to hear arguments from the State of Illinois seeking to dismiss or transfer a discrimination suit filed against the state's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) by an African American man who claims the department denied him a promotion due to his race.
The Madison County Circuit Clerk's office has collected $372, 831 in unpaid traffic fines thanks to a partnership with a collections company, Harris and Harris.
Matoesian Madison County Circuit Judge Andreas Matoesian is set to hear all pending motions in a battery and wrongful death suit filed last year over the beating death of a three year-old Carlyle boy.
Callis A motion hearing in a suit brought against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield related to an alleged attack by residents of a Catholic youth home in Alton has been pushed off to July.
The State of Illinois has filed a motion asking St. Clair County Circuit Judge Andrew Gleeson to compel a defendant to answer interrogatories in a case brought over injuries a Department of Natural Resources Officer suffered when an ATV drove into at Cahokia Mounds.
Mudge Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge is set to consider a sanctions move on the same day as he holds a pre-trial in a suit over a woman's slip down basement stairs in Granite City.
Akin Local personal injury lawyers scoffed last December when McLean County was named as a "jurisdiction to watch" in the American Tort Reform Association's annual report on the country's "Judicial Hellholes."
Proft I do not think government functionaries should set private sector salaries or that U.S. policymakers should be adorned with the appellation properly reserved for Russian autocrats.
A Jackson County man claims the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State wrongly discharged him from his job as an investigator after finding him to be deeply depressed.
EDWARDSVILLE -- An investment corporation has filed a putative class action lawsuit against a Madison County bank, alleging the bank misrepresented the amount of interest it charged on loans.