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The Fifth District Appellate Court gave Bradley Lavite, Superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County, until June 1 to file a reply brief in his appeal involving a $1 million funding dispute.
Lavite and the Veterans’ Assistance Commission (VAC) filed a notice of appeal to the Fifth District on Aug. 3 through attorney Thomas Burkart of Hamel. In a previous motion for an appealable order, Burkart wrote that the plaintiffs respectfully disagree with former Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan’s order granting the motion to dismiss filed by defendants Debra Ming-Mendoza, Mark von Nida and Madison County. Dugan is now a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
A man who was found guilty for acting as the lookout in a double homicide nearly three decades ago is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to find his mandatory life
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Cruz Reynoso, a son of migrant workers who worked in the fields as a child and went on to become the first Latino state Supreme Court justice in California history, has died. He was 90.
2021/05/09 06:41 FILE - In this April 11, 2012 file photo, Retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, who led a 13 member task force that looked into the p. FILE - In this April 11, 2012 file photo, Retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, who led a 13 member task force that looked into the pepper spraying incident that occurred at the University of California, Davis last November, discusses the report during a town hall style meeting held at the campus in Davis, Calif. Reynoso, the son of migrant farmworkers who became a giant of civil rights law and was the first Latino justice of the California Supreme Court, died on Friday, May 7, 2021, with his members of his large family at his side. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)