U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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Mother opposes doctor's move to stay alleged drugs-for-sex overdose case
EAST ST. LOUIS - Bonnie Lilly of St. Clair County, who claims at U.S. district court that physician Craig Spiegel caused the overdose of her daughter Nicole Laux, opposes a motion to stay the claim until his criminal case in Missouri has ended. -
Former IDOT worker settles alleged partisan firing lawsuit
EAST ST. LOUIS - Former Illinois transportation department employee Shelly Shevlin of Freeburg settled a claim that former governor Bruce Rauner terminated her for partisan motives. -
Freight broker not legally responsible in driver's injury crash suit
CHICAGO - U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle correctly ruled that Shawn Montgomery of Missouri can’t sue C.H. Robinson Company of Minnesota for arranging the trip of a truck that hit his truck, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled on Jan. 2. -
Local assistant AG defending prisoner suits abruptly leaves office
SWANSEA - Jesse Jones Gray, who as an assistant attorney general defended Illinois against civil suits of prisoners and other plaintiffs for 11 months, left his job in December. -
Another group of Paraquat plaintiffs face possible dismissal
EAST ST. LOUIS - Paraquat litigation leaders Sarah Doles of Florida and Kahldoun Baghdadi of California invited Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel to order 40 plaintiffs to show why she shouldn’t dismiss their claims. -
Defendant Geo Snapshot says it will go broke if not allowed to settle BIPA suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - Global photography platform Geo Snapshot of Australia claims it might not survive if it can’t settle a suit alleging that its facial recognition violates Illinois law. -
Insurer dismisses former Caraway law partners from malpractice policy suit
BENTON - Berkley Insurance dismissed Daniel Broombaugh of St. Louis and Cheryl Fisher of Swansea from a suit seeking a declaration that a malpractice policy of their former firm doesn’t cover misappropriation of client funds by their former partner Jason Caraway. -
Judge Gilbert rejects proposed $825K police brutality default judgment
BENTON - Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert rejected a recommendation to award $825,035.97 to Dorian Hendricks as default judgment on an excessive force suit against East St. Louis police on Dec. 12. -
Fertility clinic, genetic lab settle lawsuit over child born with physical abnormalities
EAST ST. LOUIS - Lindsey Cordes and John Cortes of St. Louis settled a claim that Vios fertility clinic and Advagenix genetic laboratory caused Lindsey to give birth to a daughter with physical anomalies. -
Lawyer for Cahokia Heights' residents slams sewage settlement: 'They deserve much more'
EAST ST. LOUIS - Water regulators propose a tiny $30,000 penalty for years of sewage violations in Cahokia Heights out of sympathy for the city’s poverty in a consent decree that depends on the city to pay for improvements. -
McGlynn dismisses middle car driver from crash suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn dismissed a claim that Zachary Langley of Caseyville contributed to a highway crash without moving. -
Defense moves to dismiss another batch of Paraquat suits citing failure to explain exposure
EAST ST. LOUIS - Syngenta and Chevron moved on Dec. 6 to dismiss 47 plaintiffs who alleged that weed killer Paraquat caused Parkinson’s disease, claiming they violated an order to search for proof of exposure. -
Doctor charged with distributing illegal drugs seeks stay on civil case
EAST ST. LOUIS - Missouri physician Craig Spiegel moved on Dec. 3 to stay a civil suit about the overdose of his patient Nicole Laux pending resolution of criminal charges. -
Ex-SIU staffer hits school with discrimination suit for denying her work-from-home for anxiety, depression
A former employee of SIU has filed a lawsuit against the university's Board of Trustees, alleging discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. -
Female flight nurse says Carle Foundation wrongly fired her after she became pregnant
Shelby Scholes, a former flight nurse, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Carle Foundation Hospital, alleging wrongful termination due to her pregnancy. -
Construction company owners indicted in $1.4 million Covid fraud scheme
EAST ST. LOUIS - Dana Howard of Caseyville and Richard Myers of Edwardsville committed fraud when they certified that their construction company needed $1,393,500 to pay employees in the lockdown, according to grand jurors in U.S. district court. -
East St. Louis $10 vacant land purchase questioned in Monsanto pollution suit
EAST ST. LOUIS - Lawyers who arranged for this city to pay St. Clair County $10 each for 73 vacant parcels possibly worth $3.6 million each in a pollution suit against Monsanto admitted on Nov. 21 that the sale lacked necessary approval from the county board. -
Crash suit plaintiff allegedly seeks to keep middle driver in case to defeat diversity jurisdiction
EAST ST. LOUIS - Kariah Buckmire of St. Clair County pleads for a chance to prove that Zachary Langley of Caseyville contributed to an accident that happened when a vehicle behind him shoved his vehicle into hers. -
Meta challenges Illinois biometric law in Messenger case at SDIL
EAST ST. LOUIS - Facebook provider Meta Platforms challenged the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act on constitutional grounds at U.S. district court on Nov. 14. -
Alleged polluters can perform discovery on city of East St. Louis
EAST ST. LOUIS - For three years this city performed discovery on possible pollution by Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia, and now defendants get to perform discovery on the city.