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Herbst Properties sued following injury on company-owned property

By Colin Froment | Sep 11, 2019

Apartment rental agency Herbst Properties is facing a lawsuit for allegedly breaching a “duty to exercise ordinary care” over a visitor's trip and fall incident.

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Granite City school district, teacher, student sued over alleged violent assault last year

By John Breslin | Sep 11, 2019

EDWARDSVILLE - A former high school student is suing his one time class mate over claims he was violently thrown on a hardwood basketball court floor, causing a broken collar bone and serious ligament damage to his shoulder.

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Former employee sues company over biometric data collection, retention

By John Breslin | Sep 10, 2019

A former employee of a logistics company claims his employer unlawfully collected and stored his biometric information.

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Madison County man's lawsuit against Troy dentist in its last continuance, says judge in setting October trial date

By Karen Kidd | Sep 10, 2019

EDWARDSVILLE — After multiple continuances, a Madison County man's lawsuit against a Troy dentist that he claims botched his dental implants will go to trial next month, the judge in the case said in an order issued earlier this summer.

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Settlement hearing over man's injury in 2016 Alton apartment balcony collapse set next month

By Karen Kidd | Sep 10, 2019

EDWARDSVILLE — Hearing is scheduled next month in an Alton-area contractor's settlement motion filed in the case of one of three people severely injured when a metal balcony fell away from a Alton apartment in 2016.

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Madison County judge sets trial Sept. 16 in Chinese firm's debt claim, despite defendant motion to remove him

By Karen Kidd | Sep 10, 2019

EDWARDSVILLE — A Madison County judge is pushing ahead with trial later this month in a Chinese-based shelving company's lawsuit against a dissolved storage company formerly located in Madison, despite the latter's request that the judge be substituted.

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Seventh Circuit upholds dismissal of Lavite's case against Madison County officials over admin building ban

By Karen Kidd | Sep 10, 2019

CHICAGO — Current and former Madison County officials did not violate a veterans assistance superintendent's constitutional rights when he was banned from the county's administration building in 2015, a federal appeals court affirmed last month.

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$4.3 million FACTA class certified in St. Clair Co. – after New York court expressed doubts – reversed at Fifth District

By Record News | Sep 9, 2019

MOUNT VERNON – Former St. Clair County circuit judge Vincent Lopinot failed to ask necessary questions before approving settlement of a class action against Body Shop stores, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Sept. 6.

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Judgment against Cerro Flow reversed at Fifth District; Sanction was ‘unwarranted disregard of court authority’

By Record News | Sep 9, 2019

MOUNT VERNON – St. Clair County Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson improperly granted judgment against metal recycler Cerro Flow Products as a sanction in a discovery dispute, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Sept. 6.

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Rudolf transfers suit to Marion County where alleged injury occurred, in wake of Fifth District ruling

By Record News | Sep 8, 2019

BELLEVILLE – Four days after appellate judges told St, Clair County Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson to send a suit to the county where the injury happened, Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf sent a suit to the county where the injury happened.

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Duebbert’s attorney responds to Belleville in malicious prosecution suit: Cops ‘played knowing part in conspiracy’

By Record News | Sep 6, 2019

EAST ST. LOUIS – Circuit Judge Ron Duebbert denied that he needed to sharpen his malicious prosecution complaint in U.S. district court, but he sharpened it anyway.

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Former Club Fitness staffer allegedly not paid full commission for recruiting new members

By John Breslin | Sep 5, 2019

EDWARDSVILLE - A former fitness center employee is suing the company, alleging she was not paid the full amount for recruiting new members.

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Patron sues Casino Queen over injuries during armed robbery

By John Breslin | Sep 5, 2019

BELLEVILLE - A patron at an East St. Louis casino claims she was injured when she tried to escape during an armed robbery.

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Madison County civil docket Sept. 9-13

By Andrew Thomas | Sep 4, 2019

Madison County judges Ruth, Dugan, Smith, Hylla, Harrison, and Stobbs have law cases scheduled on the civil docket for Sept. 9-13.

From Legal Newsline

‘Business decision’: Former DEA official works for opioid lawyers but set standards for how many pills were made

By John O'Brien | 2 months ago

Now, Rannazzisi is helping private lawyers pin the blame squarely on manufacturers and distributors of opioids, as well as pharmacies. A post-DEA alliance with trial lawyers has been worth six figures for Rannazzisi, who has been hailed as a whistleblower by those cheering attempts to prosecute the opioid industry for the nation’s addiction crisis.

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St. Clair has 35 times as many civil actions than Monroe, Fifth District says plaintiff should sue where she lives

By Record News | Sep 2, 2019

MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District appellate judges directed Twentieth Circuit Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson to transfer a shopper’s suit against Schnuck Markets from St. Clair County to Monroe County.

From Legal Newsline

Battle between states and cities for opioid money escalates as Ohio AG makes play for control of litigation

By Daniel Fisher | 2 months ago

CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked a federal appeals court to halt or dismiss the first two bellwether trials in opioid multidistrict litigation, in a major escalation of the long-brewing fight between state AGs and cities/counties seeking their own share of opioid lawsuit proceeds.

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Agricultural products firm accused of unlawful collection, storage of biometric data

By John Breslin | Aug 30, 2019

BELLEVILLE - An employee is suing an agricultural products company. alleging it illegally collected, stored and used employees' biometric information.

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Former employee accuses Integrity Healthcare of retaliation over injury report

By John Breslin | Aug 30, 2019

BELLEVILLE -- An employee of a long-term care facility alleges she was retaliated against and fired after reporting an internal failure to timely report an injury to a resident.

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Employees accuse Bria Health Services of misusing biometric data

By Kayla Elder | Aug 30, 2019

BELLEVILLE -- Bria Health Services and Belleville Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center are under fire by former and current employees for its alleged misuse of biometric clock-in information.