Harold Crocker of South Fulton, Tenn. filed a Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) suit in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis against Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad Oct. 24.
Charles Jordan filed suit against Mac’s Timeout Lounge and its owner, Van “Mac” Lenhardt in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis Oct. 24 claiming he was kicked out of the bar because he was African-American.
A janitor fired for not wearing synthetic latex gloves has filed suit against his former employer, Heartland Regional Medical Center of St. Joseph, Mo., alleging discrimination because of his disability.
A former receptionist in Mt. Vernon’s Inspection and Engineering Department filed a sexual harassment and retaliation suit against the municipality Oct. 17, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in Benton.
Four former employees of Illinois Central Railroad (ICR) filed a Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) suit in U.S. District Court Oct. 17, alleging fear of future cancer and/or asbestosis.
Herndon If former state Appellate Court Judge and Supreme Court candidate Gordon Maag is looking for a friendlier reception for his $110 million defamation lawsuit—bounced from state court this summer—the Democrat-dominated U.S. District Court in East St. Louis might be the place.
Jeffrey Lowe St. Louis Attorney Jeffrey Lowe filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis on behalf of seven people seeking damages for personal injuries after taking the prescription pain reliever, Bextra
Madison County's so-called friendly venue was not nice, indeed, for Alton plaintiff's attorney Robert Larson on Monday. His medical malpractice client sued him for legal malpractice.
Delta Queen David Hill filed a Jones Act lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Sept. 9, against Kirby Inland Marine claiming he suffered injuries on Nov. 20, 2004.
Joseph Davis, 32, of Fairfield, Ill. was named in a one count indictment of child pornography, according to Ronald J. Tenpas, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Benton on Sept. 7.
McMorrow Lost amidst the substance of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Avery decision was a curious dissent, one that expressed compassion for the losing plaintiff’s lawyers.
Belleville Police Department Bryan Joseph Schmittling claims Belleville police officers violated his civil rights by ignoring his pleas for medical assistance after an auto accident Dec. 20, 2004, and then torturing him with a taser gun.
A security officer at Gateway Regional Medical in Granite City filed an age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against her employer in U.S. District Court of Southern Illinois.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on Tuesday filed a constitutional challenge to the 1998 tobacco settlement in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on behalf of a distributor, two small tobacco manufacturers, a tobacco store and an individual smoker.
John Petrovich, M.D., 46, a Granite City surgeon and target of at least 15 medical malpractice cases, pled guilty on July 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to one felony charge of health care fraud.
Tiffany B. Klosener Walgreens is accused of systemic racial discrimation and segregation against black employees nationwide, according to a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Illinois.
Joseph Sanders, 37, an inmate at the maximum security federal penitentiary at Marion, was found guilty July 18 of possessing a weapon in the prison following a bench trial, announced Ronald J. Tenpas, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.