Reeg The University of Chicago, Illinois Farm Bureau and other big trade groups are seeking to kill a series of subpoenas and deposition notices filed in a class action against various makers and distributors of atrazine.
Crowder Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder will oversee a motion hearing Aug. 25 in a proposed class action against atrazine manufacturer Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
Tillery A number of trade groups representing the chemical and fertilizer industries in Illinois are fighting subpoenas issued in one of a series of class action cases over alleged water contamination by a popular weed killer.
Frank Critics of the federal Environmental Protection Agency's ongoing re-review of the commonly used pesticide atrazine and pending lawsuits against its makers say the potential ramifications could be staggering if the pesticide was ever banned.
President Obama WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama went out of his way to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night, though some are writing that he was wrong in his argument.
Ben-Shahar In his years of studying mandates on product disclosures and other parts of consumer protection law, Omri Ben-Shahar has come to realize one thing.
Crowder Despite disappointment in losing his wrongful death suit against a Highland surgeon, plaintiff Russell Darbon of Edwardsville says he and his family have gained something from the case: closure.
The experts have had their say and now it's time for the jury to have its as a 2004 wrongful death suit against a surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital in Highland ends.
"We-the-People-of-this-era" have failed ourselves in our own self-governing. Indeed, we have failed over one million Americans who have died on the battlefields of freedom (from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan) and countless others who have been disabled, orphaned or widowed (the additional price of freedom).
I was born in Chicago and I have been a legal resident of Illinois for 94% of my life -- only a stint in Washington interrupted. I love the city and the state.
Adomite These groups would never admit the need for legal reform, nor would they acknowledge that some judges are better than others. They would never acknowledge an even more dramatic thought that some judges might not be living up the high standards they've been trusted to uphold and maintain.
Don Coursey That corn growers' favorite herbicide is a frequent target of "activists" prompted an atrazine industry spokesman to warn that replacing actual science with political science would be disastrous for state agriculture.