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Prolific anti-COVID mitigation attorney Tom DeVore on Monday filed suit over Gov. JB Pritzker’s mandate requiring all students, faculty and staff at Illinois schools wear masks in the face of COVID’s more contagious Delta variant spreading across the state.

(Insert applause GIF) Some lawyers have sure made a lot of money during this pandemic losing cases. It’s nice to see the Courts continue to rule to uphold these sorts of restrictions. Did n’t we whack Kilbride so all the crazies could run wild in the Supreme Court? Wha happened? I can’t help but wonder how many of these, for lack of a better word, griftees - think the purpose of a Supreme Court is to re-litigate a specific adjudicated decision they don’t agree with in a lower court. Pe...

ECWd) - Silver Lake Law Group ltd. attorney Tom Devore is representing Kirk Allen and John Kraft, founders of the Edgar County Watchdogs Inc. in a recently filed Declaratory Judgment action against Governor Pritzker in relation to his perpetual issuance of disaster proclamations. ECWd was the first to expose the fact Governor Pritzkers Executive Orders do not trump the peoples due process rights in this article on March 15th, 2020.  Two weeks later we provided this article, Illinois Business...

In case you missed it this week: A recap of the states COVID-19 restrictions, vaccine distribution, legislative news, unemployment numbers and more.

By Sarah Mansur & Capitol News Illinois • Feb 4, 2021 Credit Capitol News Illinois file photo Although the governor’s latest indoor dining ban has been lifted in all areas of the state, some lawsuits brought by restaurants challenging the ban remain active. Among those are the cases filed by Tom DeVore, a southern Illinois lawyer who represents Sen. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, and advises hundreds of other business clients who are staying open during the pandemic. DeVore has a...

Cue the comments stating that this improvement would have happened without the Governor’s restrictions and now he’s killed the economy. Sigh… Love to see this!! Enjoying these numbers, while I can. - Not the Dude - Wednesday, Feb 3, 21 @ 8:49 am: I feel sorry for all the businesses that have been impacted, but his actions have helped slow the spread. Hopefully relief for all is just around the corner. I sure wish that more people would understand these numbers as “the preventative meas...

The Normal Town Council meets remotely, Monday, Feb. 1 UPDATED 10 a.m. | The Normal Liquor Commission on Monday voted 5-2 to fine a bar and restaurant about $4,000 for violating COVID-19 mitigation rules. The owners of Joe’s Station House Pizza Pub, located at the Shoppes at College Hills, plan to appeal the decision, their attorney said.  The fines come after owners Tony and Joe Wargo ignored Gov. JB Pritzker’s executive orders prohibiting indoor dining, as part of the state’s COVID res...

The appeal is forthcoming. Joe’s Station House Pizza Pub, 305 N. Veterans Parkway, was issued three fines for defying a state indoor dining ban, which Normal said violated town liquor code. The three fines plus $2420 in court-related fees totals out to $4,170. Tom DeVore, the attorney representing pub owners Joe and Tony Wargo, said they intend to appeal the decision to the state Liquor Control Commission. The business was issued the fines for disobeying a state rule banning indoor dining, wh...

It’s right here: - Gruntled University Employee - Tuesday, Jan 26, 21 @ 11:07 am: ==Reached by phone, Mr. Lindell said that he was carrying notes supplied to him by a lawyer he was working with to try to prove that Mr. Trump was the true winner of the 2020 election. He would not identify the lawyer.== Tom DeVore?? ==The Republican Party has arrived at an inflection point where many of our policy solutions have never been more relevant to helping improve citizens’ lives== ==support of the f...