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EAST ST. LOUIS A man found guilty of theft for allegedly obtaining control of a Granite City property by deception is suing the State Appellate Public Defender s office, alleging literally decades of delays in securing representation has affected his appeal of the verdict.
Jerry Yeager, Jr., individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed a complaint March 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Office of the State Appellate Defender, Thomas Breen, Carol Brook, James Brusatte and others in their official capacities as commissioners of the Board of the State Appellate Defender, alleging violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Yeager is represented by Thomas Maag of The Maag Law Firm LLC in Wood River.
Sansone | Law Offices of Joel Sansone
PITTSBURGH – A settlement has been reached in a case which alleged that two former students of Butler Wesleyan Academy were subjected to racist and discriminatory treatment based upon their multi-racial heritage.
Gail S. (in her individual capacity and as parent and legal guardian of minor plaintiffs, Jo. S. and Je. S.) of Butler County first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 9 versus Butler Wesleyan Academy and Butler Wesleyan Methodist Church of Butler, Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection of Salem, Ohio, plus Paul Fish, Teddy Zeigler, Sally Zeigler, Dennis J. Ballock, Dave Patterson, Curt Field, Kimberly Fish and John/Jane Does, also all of Butler County.
A federal court in Rhode Island has dismissed a series of claims from students at the University of Rhode Island, Brown University, and Johnson & Wales who filed lawsuits alleging they were entitled to a tuition refund after the COVID-19 schools transitio
David Garraux of Jones Day for the plaintiff
PITTSBURGH - Allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets, interference with business relations and unfair competition have brought a lawsuit against Andrea Lovell, doing business as NucMed Service Specialists, according to court documents filed a month ago in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
The charges were filed by TTG Imaging Solutions Inc., a national nuclear medicine and imaging device provider headquartered in Pittsburgh.
According to the suit, Lovell was a field services engineer with TTG, but resigned and launched her own directly competing business, NucMed.
Lovell, a resident of Georgia, allegedly used service contracts and pricing structures nearly identical to TTG S and targeted its clients. In her leadership role with TTG, Lovell accessed protected and highly confidential information related to the company s data, clients, marketing and offerings, the s
RADNORÂ â An effort put forth by one Radnor commissioner to censure another member over a Twitter dispute quickly died as three Democrats joined a Republican to kill the action.
At a board meeting this week, Radnor Commissioner Sean Farhy, a Democrat, proposed the board censure a fellow commissioner, Republican Jake Abel, for blocking him on Twitter.
Farhy cited the 2019 case, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. Trump, where a federal court upheld a lower courtâs decision that former president Trump violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter.
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âThe blocking of both public officials and/or private citizens is a violation of the First Amendment which he swore to uphold when he took his oath of office. The Board of Commissioners should formally distance themselves from this type of unethical and immoral behavior which has now been deemed by a U.S. Federal Court as unconstitutional an