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EAST ST. LOUIS - Chester Mental Health Center admissions and discharge coordinator Angela Kongeal deserves trial on claims that her employers didn’t accommodate her disabilities, Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel ruled on Feb. 12.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Assistant Attorney General Tara Barnett of Fairview Heights ended the state’s long struggle to pay sanctions to Carbondale lawyer Shari Rhode on July 27.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Chester mental health managers requested another extension of time to pay Carbondale lawyer Shari Rhode a $1,350 sanction they’ve owed her since October and a $2,250 sanction they’ve owed her since February.

A judge found him fit to stand trial on Tuesday, a year after he was found unfit and sent to Chester Mental Health Center for treatment.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyer Martin Plute no longer works for Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul, according to a substitution motion in a suit against Chester mental health hospital.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Assistant Illinois attorney general Martin Plute took over a case after his colleague Thomas Ewick was sanctioned for discovery violations, and Plute managed to make matters worse.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Assistant Illinois attorney general Thomas Ewick, whose misconduct in a suit against Chester mental health hospital cost the state in cash and strategy, was removed from the case.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Chief U. S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel struck all affirmative defenses of assistant Illinois attorney general Thomas Ewick on Feb. 23 for violating her orders in a civil suit against Chester Mental Health hospital.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Chief U. S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel has sanctioned Illinois state government twice for misconduct in a civil suit and could do it again if Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul fails to pay for discovery violations.

SPRINGFIELD – Attorney General Kwame Raoul has failed to cut a $1,350 check his client has owed to Carbondale lawyer Shari Rhode since October.