Tillery
BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.
In 2003, after a bench trial, late Madison County judge Nicholas Byron awarded more than $10 billion to a class of cigarette smokers Tillery represented.
The few American cases with higher judgments, such as state tobacco litigation in the 1990s and Deepwater Horizon explosion suits, ended in settlement.
Tillery retreated from the field of class actions after the state Supreme Court and Congress restricted them, though he has returned as ambitious as ever.
SIU s campuses in Carbondale and Edwardsville will hold tuition and mandatory fees flat next year - as administrators say higher education shouldn t be out of reach because of cost.
SIUC Chancellor Austin Lane says students and their families need a quality education, but they have to be able to afford it, too. This is the third year in a row for not increasing undergraduate tuition. Our mandatory fees have remained at the same level since Fiscal Year 16. Just so everyone knows, we re doing everything we can to maintain our focus on affordability and accessibility.
In addition, the university s board of trustees formalized the hire of the system s first Vice President for Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Sheila Caldwell is expected to start that position this summer.
Mingqing Xiao
BENTON – Mathematics professor Mingqing Xiao of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale concealed his Chinese research while winning an American grant, grand jurors alleged in U.S. district court on April 21.
They indicted him on charges of wire fraud and making a false statement.
Xiao, age 59, resides in Makanda.
The university hired him in 2000.
Grand jurors found his research included partial differential equations, control theory, optimization theory, dynamical systems and computational science.
Xiao is alleged to have received about $180,000 from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province in 2017, to run from 2018 to 2022.
According to the indictment, he renewed a contract for a monthly salary with Shenzhen University of the same province in April 2018, to run to 2023.
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Riverside Advisors Advises Certified Training Institute, Inc. in Sale to American Safety Council, a Portfolio Company of Ridgemont Equity Partners
April 13, 2021 GMT
Riverside Advisors is pleased to announce that it served as the exclusive financial advisor to Certified Training Institute, Inc. in its sale to American Safety Council, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners.
Riverside Advisors is pleased to announce that it served as the exclusive financial advisor to Certified Training Institute, Inc. in its sale to American Safety Council, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners.