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MOUNT VERNON – Madison County Board members who terminated administrator Doug Hulme and information technology director Rob Dorman in 2020 didn’t violate their rights, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on June 15.
Timothy Banowetz claims he was coerced and argues that the judge should have removed herself due to campaign contributions from the victim.
Mahoney A former Granite City High School student seeks default judgment against a fellow classmate accused of attacking him in the school gymnasium, arguing that the defendant has failed to enter his appearance nearly two years after the complaint was filed. Plaintiff Austin Gilmore filed a motion for default judgment on June 21 through attorney Ryan Mahoney of Cates Mahoney LLC in Swansea. Mahoney argues that the complaint was filed Aug. 23, 2019, and defendant Tyler Frizzell was served on Sept. 19, 2019. However, he has failed to file an answer or other respon...
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 retreate...
Gibbons at a press conference announcing details of the Randy Gori murder case EDWARDSVILLE – Former Madison County state’s attorney Tom Gibbons formed a regional police squad to investigate Republicans about a rumor, according to public record of the investigation. No evidence for the rumor ever turned up. The team searched for political activity inside the courthouse and found it only on the Democratic side of the fence. Top Democrats wound up explaining why party messages showed up in their computer mailboxes. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, w...