Services for Illinois State Trooper Nicholas Hopkins, killed in the line of duty while serving a search warrant at a home in East St. Louis early Friday morning, have been scheduled later in the week at Waterloo High School.
NORMAN, Okla. (Legal Newsline) - A state judge in Oklahoma has blamed Johnson & Johnson for the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay $572 million in damages, extending public nuisance law beyond its traditional boundaries into what may become an all-purpose tool for government lawsuits against product manufacturers.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Prosecutors whose sexual abuse charges against Circuit Judge Ron Duebbert fell through for lack of a witness argue that he can’t sue them because they acted on probable cause.
Lawyers for Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan argued that even if he did recruit so-called “sham candidates” to siphon votes away from his 2016 primary opponent, such tactics aren’t against the law.
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) and the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from all judicial circuits in Illinois for Self-Represented Litigant (SRL) Coordinators.
The Illinois Supreme Court will leave the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield behind for a day to hear oral arguments at Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey.
HSPRD congratulates its shareholder and president, Matthew Piers on his recent selection by Lawdragon as one of the nation’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in 2019.
The following cases categorized as "insurance" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on Aug. 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on Aug. 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "550 prisoner: civil rights" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on Aug. 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Government employees under Madigan’s watch were made to feel accountable to lobbyists, political campaign staff and other outside interests. Not the public.
Sixteen years ago in a case involving gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co., a New York appeals court refused to apply public nuisance law against the manufacturer of a legal product, saying that doing so would transform nuisance law “into a monster that would devour in one gulp the entire law of tort.”
BELLEVILLE - A Wal-Mart customer claims his truck's engine was damaged beyond repair during an oil change and is now being held until he pays a bill for diagnostic work.