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Recent News About Village of South Roxana

• Three defendants settle in Walgreens' parking lot fall case

  By Amelia Flood | Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 @ 3:40am

  Three defendants in a suit over a South Roxana man's fall in the parking lot of a Wood River Walgreens have settled.

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• Outlawing fun -- have our Courts gone too far?

  By Margaret Lowery | Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 @ 8:50am

  The recent Fifth District decision to affirm judgment against the South Roxana Dad's Club for an eight-year-old boy's injury while riding his bicycle reminded me of a case with a far different conclusion.

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• Asbestos and Fire misses mark

  By The Madison County Record | Friday, Jan 27, 2006 @ 6:00pm

  To the editor:

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• This week in History- Sept. 27 through Oct. 3

  By Jeff Gelber | Wednesday, Sep 22, 2004 @ 9:41am

  Oct 2, 2003-- The St. Louis Post Dispatch editorialized strongly to "derail (the) gravy train" in Madison County by moving all class action cases to federal court. "Lawyers are tooling in from all over to file class-action cases at one of the most plaintiff-friendly courts in the country. It's got to stop," the paper wrote.

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