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MOUNT VERNON – Justice Judy Cates, whose noisy Supreme Court campaign ended in defeat by 26 points two years ago, quietly seeks retention as Fifth District Appellate Court judge.
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SPRINGFIELD – Since Katie Stuart (D-Edwardsville) first ran for state representative in 2016, she has raised 94 percent of her itemized revenue - $4.28 million – from outside the Metro East counties.
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CHARLOTTE – Bankruptcy Judge Laura Beyer held 2,140 asbestos plaintiffs in contempt on Feb. 10, and gave them a week to answer questions of Georgia Pacific entity Bestwall.
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CHARLOTTE – Mesothelioma lawyers continue to disobey an order for disclosure about settlements, including the Gori Law Firm in Edwardsville.
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CHARLOTTE - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laura Beyer laid a $402,817.70 penalty on St. Louis asbestos firm Maune Raichle on Aug. 31, to reimburse a Georgia Pacific entity for defending an Illinois lawsuit the firm filed in violation of an order she entered.
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Asbestos exposure shenanigans continue to this day, but U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle of the Southern District of Illinois wants no part of them.
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BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle dismissed a challenge to a North Carolina order requiring asbestos plaintiffs to answer questions about their exposure history.
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BENTON – Asbestos attorney John Simmons of Alton broke the ranks of Illinois asbestos lawyers by dropping out of a suit at U.S. district court and agreeing to file client questionnaires for a bankruptcy judge in North Carolina.
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SPRINGFIELD – Among 74 Democrats in the state House, 32 campaigned with Rep. Jay Hoffman’s money in their treasuries from January 2018 to last September.
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Appeals Court Judge Judy Cates has long benefitted from generous donations from lawyers and law firms far and wide. Now that she’s running for a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court, the generosity is snowballing.
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SPRINGFIELD – Business owners spending $5 million against retention of Tom Kilbride in the Supreme Court’s Third District started spending against election of Fifth District candidate Judy Cates on Oct. 15.
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SPRINGFIELD – Ninety percent of the $1.9 million in contributions and transfers received by Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride in the third quarter came from sources in or near Chicago and St. Louis.
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SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court candidate David Overstreet received 134 contributions from the rural side of his district in the third quarter, while opponent Judy Cates received none.
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MOUNT VERNON – Lawyers campaigning for Supreme Court candidate Judy Cates branded a suspect as a child rapist to damage her opponent David Overstreet.
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SPRINGFIELD – With two Supreme Court seats at stake, far more Democrat dollars flow to retention of Justice Thomas Kilbride than to election of Judy Cates.
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ALTON - The House of Representatives’ Special Investigating Committee was abruptly paused Tuesday by Democratic Chairman Chris Welch (D-Hillside), halting the legislative investigation into Speaker Mike Madigan’s alleged pay-to-play bribery scheme with ComEd until after the Nov. 3 General Election, giving fodder to Republicans who say House Democrats aren’t serious about ending corruption.
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SPRINGFIELD – Chicago area lawyers contributed $69,800 to Democratic Supreme Court candidate Judy Cates on Sept. 29.
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ROCK ISLAND – Tom Keefe’s firm in Swansea and John Simmons’s firm in Alton each contributed $100,000 to retention of Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride after he removed the limit on his contributors.
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ELMHURST – Now that Gov. J. B. Pritzker has limited civil liability for health care providers fighting a global virus, the Illinois Civil Justice League is calling on legislators to give his executive order the force of law.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Bankruptcy court administrator Shelley Abel knocked asbestos giants Simmons Hanly Conroy and Motley Rice off a committee of firms with claims against CertainTeed Corporation.
