Boyle Brasher News Today

EAST ST. LOUIS – Amtrak, Illinois Central, and the family of a man who died at a railroad crossing settled a suit that was scheduled for trial starting on Sept. 11.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Five days before the start of a wrongful death trial against Amtrak, Illinois Central, and trash business Ed Burris Disposal, the trash business settled the claim for $250,000.

Schneidewind BENTON – Prairie State Generating and a Kentucky business settled a claim that exterior wall panels at Prairie State’s power plant in Washington County failed.  The power company and panel provider Centria announced an agreement to Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert on March 25.  They followed through with a joint stipulation on March 29.  Files show the plant cost $28 million including $4.6 million for the panels.  Prairie State retained Da...

Over a dissent from two justices Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a utility worker who chose church over work on Good Friday and was promptly suspended. A parishioner makes an offering after outdoor mass at St. Agnes, a Catholic church in San Diego, California, during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard) WASHINGTON (CN) — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito balked Monday at their colleagues’ refusal to wade into a religious-discriminati...