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EAST ST. LOUIS – Troy Bozarth, veteran defense counsel in civil litigation, has taken the plaintiff side for former prison inmate Terrance Daugherty of Chicago in U.S. district court on a claim of sexual abuse at Lawrence correctional center.

The future of the Palm Beach International Raceway remains up in the air after the county's zoning commission pumped the brakes — at least for now — on a redevelopment plan.

EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty recused himself from a case about cracks in a church where family member Steven Beatty tended the flock.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Plaintiff Myron Sandoval of California, who sued in California and Illinois over a California accident, proposes to apply California law at trial in Illinois.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Psychiatrist Alex Rose didn’t violate attorney client privilege when he reported what he heard at an examination room door, the Flora school board argued in U.S. district court on Jan. 11.

EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty must decide whether psychiatrist Alex Rose of Richmond Heights, Mo. acted as scientist or spy outside an examination room on Aug. 28.

– The family and many friends of Judy Burroughs are mourning her passing. She was born Jan. 26, 1945 and passed into the Promised Land Sept. 14, 2021. She was the first born child of proud parents. She grew up in San Francisco, played violin, piano, and graduated from UCSF with a baccalaureate of science in nursing.

Marks EAST ST. LOUIS – Former U.S. attorney Stephen Wigginton filed the last suit of his private practice in the wrong court, according to an order that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty issued on May 18.  Beatty found that former Wigginton client April Len, who worked for Secretary of State Jesse White, should have challenged her termination in state court.  He dismissed her claims under federal law with prejudice and dismissed claims under state law without pre...

Courtney Cox EAST ST. LOUIS – Indiana resident Gary Martin broke Illinois law by recording conversations at work, according to a judge presiding over Martin’s civil suit against his former employer.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty declared the recordings inadmissible on Jan. 29.  “Plaintiff secretly recorded these conversations without the consent of all parties, violating the eavesdropping statute,” he wrote.  Attorney Stephen Williams of Terre Haute, ...

Busy comfort zone: Ochs balances Trimpe, EA-WR duties and waits Ochs balances Trimpe,EA-WR duties and waits Pete Hayes, phayes@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Jeff Ochs talks with his CM team last season during his tenure as interim girls basketball coach at Civic Memorial. Ochs, the AD at Trimpe Middle School, is now in his first season as head coach of the EA-WR girls basketball team. Even though he’s been busy handling both positions, he’s hoping the Region 4 mitigation level...