U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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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. -
Prison warden denied move to reinstate 'deliberate indifference' defense
EAST ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn denied leave for prison warden Daniel Monti to reinstate a defense he withdrew last year against prisoner Charles Yoder’s complaint of deliberate indifference to his medical conditions. -
Honduran woman granted asylum pursues lawsuit against U.S. for the year she was expelled
EAST ST. LOUIS - Somewhere in Caseyville a mother from Honduras hides from gangs and pursues a lawsuit against the nation that granted asylum to her and her family. -
Plaintiff lawyer offers to drop defendant in exchange for not removing injury case, removal notice says
EAST ST. LOUIS - Lawyer Branden Stein claims lawyer Joseph Bartholomew offered to dismiss an Illinois defendant from an injury suit in exchange for a promise not to remove a Georgia defendant to U.S. district court. -
'Unconstitutional affront:' Federal judge strikes down Illinois 'assault weapons' ban
Saying the law falls far short under the Constitution, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn entered an injunction which would block the state from enforcing Gov. Pritzker's ban on so-called 'assault weapons.' The ruling is stayed for 30 days, pending an expected appeal from the state -
Judge quashes subpoena of doctor's tax and financial records in crash suit
BENTON - Rich, Rich and Cooksey of Fairview Heights didn’t convert a client’s treating physician to a retained expert, Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on Oct. 31. -
Caseyville opposes CSX motion to dismiss flood lawsuit; 'Tracks are knowingly inoperable'
EAST ST. LOUIS - Caseyville claims CSX railroad can’t plead that the village’s lawsuit over a flood interferes with railroad operations when it hasn’t used the track since the flood. -
Judge Rosenstengel: Newer Paraquat plaintiffs can't dodge exposure subpoenas
EAST ST. LOUIS - Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel ruled on Oct. 28 that 402 plaintiffs in nationwide litigation of claims that weed killer paraquat caused Parkinson’s disease must serve subpoenas for proof of exposure.