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Woman wins $95 million in sexual harassment suit against ex-boss, Aaron's Rents
Cates A 20 year-old rental store clerk has won $95 million from a federal jury on claims that sexual harassment by her boss at a Fairview Heights rent-to-own store ended in a sexual assault. -
Attorneys ask to withdraw from federal suit over Cahokia water district firings
Attorneys Robert Sprague and Donald Urban have filed motions asking for leave to withdraw from representing several former employees of the Commonfields of Cahokia Water District in a federal suit over those employees' firings. -
Holiday Shores moving for protective order after Syngenta subpoenas expert witnesses
Tillery Lead plaintiff Holiday Shores Sanitary District is asking Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge to limit the scope covered by two subpoenas issued to expert witnesses in a proposed class action over the weed killer atrazine. -
Syngenta issues subpoenas to National Resources Defense Council, experts in state atrazine case
Reeg Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. has issued subpoenas to the National Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC) and two of its experts in a proposed Madison County class action over the weed killer atrazine. -
Syngenta pushes back on sealed documents issue in federal atrazine class action
Reeg Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. agrees that some documents plaintiffs filed under seal in a proposed federal class action over alleged water contamination should never have been sealed. -
Mudge sets date to review documents in Syngenta atrazine case
Mudge Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge has set a June date to privately review documents in a 2004 proposed class action against Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. over alleged water contamination caused by atrazine. -
The PIGs are getting into the corn
Oxymorons can be amusing. Self-contradictory phrases like "peace protest" and "workers' paradise" are inherently funny -- and instructive as well, alerting us to the two-sided nature of the thing described. -
Visa class action hearing continued; plaintiffs amend complaint to clarify class definitions
Goldenberg A hearing set Friday in a 2010 class action filed against Visa Inc. and other defendants over the value of purchased gift cards has been canceled. -
Plaintiffs seek to change case schedule in federal Syngenta atrazine class action
Tillery The plaintiffs in a federal class action against Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. and Syngenta AG are asking the court to change the suit's case management order, a move that tdefendants oppose. -
Breach of contract suit against State Farm over 'plantation mentality' claims in court
Steele Madison County Chief Judge Ann Callis is set to hear motions May 12 in a breach of contract case filed by a couple that claims State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and other defendants discriminated against them and displayed a "plantation mentality." -
Holiday Shores files for more time on sanctions move in Syngenta atrazine case
Tillery The Holiday Shores Sanitary District has asked for more time to take a deposition related to a sanctions move in a proposed class action against Syngenta Crop Protection Inc., the maker of the weed killer, atrazine. -
Removal notice in Cahokia Water District employees' suit added to file a year later
LeChien Although the defendants in a suit brought by former employees of the Commonfields of Cahokia Water District removed the suit to federal court in March 2010, the suit's St. Clair County file did not reflect the removal until recently. -
Mudge orders Syngenta to produce PR firm documents
Mudge Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge has ordered Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. to turn over public relations and other documents that the company had claimed were privileged to plaintiff Holiday Shores Sanitary District. -
Syngenta files responses to sanctions moves centered on Swiss documents, market share data
Tillery Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. has filed two responses to sanctions moves aimed at it by the lead plaintiff in a proposed class action over alleged water contamination caused by the company's weed killer, atrazine. -
No action since September 2010 in suit against Bayer over Trayslol
There has been no action since two of the attorneys for five plaintiffs suing Bayer Corp. and two of its pharmaceutical arms over the drug Trasylol filed to bow out of the suit last September. -
No action since December in Schottel's suit against Judge Young, Berry
Schottel Jr. There has been no action since December 2010 in a suit filed by St. Louis attorney James Schottel Jr. against former St. Clair County Circuit Judge Patrick Young and Belleville attorney William Berry. -
Federal Syngenta atrazine suit continues as five hour settlement conference comes to nothing
Tillery A five hour settlement conference did not result in the end of a federal class action suit brought against the maker of the popular weed killer atrazine. -
Environmental groups file to unseal documents in federal atrazine class action against Syngenta
Learner Two environmental groups are moving to vacate an order sealing documents in a federal suit against the leading maker of the weed killer atrazine. -
Syngenta hearing moved as discovery disputes continue in atrazine class action
Reeg A Friday hearinA Friday hearing is off in one of a series of proposed class actions brought against the makers of the weed killer atrazine. -
Suit against former Judge Young over Venezia case stalls in federal court
Young A suit against former St. Clair County Circuit Judge Patrick Young has stalled in federal court.