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Illinois energy companies move to dismiss Sierra Club's suit seeking to shut down power plant
BENTON – Energy companies that own Prairie State power plant near Marissa have operated in accordance with Illinois law since they started burning coal, according to a motion they filed to dismiss a suit seeking to shut it down. -
Hoerner denies media's request to unseal records in paraquat litigation
BELLEVILLE – St. Clair County Circuit Judge Kevin Hoerner denied a motion by American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for access to records he sealed in a suit over exposure to weed killer paraquat. -
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action on May 6, 2022
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action on May 6, 2022. -
Davis Introduces Legislation to Prevent Liberal Local Governments From Banning or Restricting Pesticide Use
Davis Introduces Legislation to Prevent Liberal Local Governments From Banning or Restricting Pesticide Use. -
Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit Against Marathon Pipe Line LLC Over Oil Spill
Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit Against Marathon Pipe Line LLC Over Oil Spill. -
DOJ wants to collect remaining assets of company that allegedly destroyed wetlands along Cahokia Canal
EAST ST. LOUIS – Petroff Trucking owners dissolved the company while defending a claim that they destroyed 15 acres of wetlands along Cahokia Canal, according to the U.S. justice department. -
Fourth District profile: Red bench is forum for disputes involving the entire state
SPRINGFIELD – Statewide issues like virus mandates and judicial gerrymandering land on the bench of the Fourth District appellate court where voters haven’t picked a Democrat in 24 years. -
Sandberg Phoenix, attorneys appeal Fifth District’s punitive damages ruling to Illinois Supreme Court
A St. Louis law firm and two attorneys are petitioning the Illinois Supreme Court to review the Fifth District Appellate Court’s ruling that punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice cases. -
Certification denied in proposed class action over '15 Highland oil spill
BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle has denied certification of a class action over oil that spilled at Silver Lake near Highland in 2015. -
Judge in paraquat trial will bar 11 defense experts from testifying about EPA
BELLEVILLE – St. Clair County Associate Judge Kevin Hoerner entered nine straight orders in favor of paraquat plaintiffs in preparation for a trial he would have started Monday, May 10. -
St. Clair County jurors to hear science of paraquat in upcoming trial; Big studies have failed to find Parkinson's link
BELLEVILLE – “Studies have shown,” say lawyers on television linking weed killer paraquat to Parkinson’s disease. But doctors have hunted for that link a long time without finding it. -
Fifth District: Punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice suit involving $785K jury verdict
The Fifth District Appellate Court held that punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice cases, concluding that in such circumstances the punitive damages are “compensatory in nature.” -
Illinois lawmakers tackle balloons, pitchfork fishing, but keep residents in dark on ethics reforms
The Illinois General Assembly busies itself with limiting balloon releases and regulating pitchfork fishing along highways when ethics reform is the need in a state with a rich history of corruption. -
Federal, state governments seek cleanup costs for contaminated Fairmont City property
EAST ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Federal Government and the State of Illinois have filed a suit claiming XTRA Intermodal is liable for environmental damages and cleanup costs associated with its property in St. Clair and Madison Counties. -
EPA sues Petroff Trucking over alleged pollution through Cahokia Canal
EAST ST. LOUIS – Petroff Trucking Company pollutes the Mississippi River through Cahokia Canal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleged U.S. district court on Sept. 14. -
Senators ask EPA for solution to Centreville’s ‘deplorable’ sewer and water conditions
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin sounded an alarm for Centreville on July 28, calling for federal intervention to clean its water and fix its sewers. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Challenges Rule Curtailing States’ Clean Water Act Oversight
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule unlawfully curtailing state authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Raoul Urges the EPA to Strengthen Standards Regulating Particulate Matter Pollution
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw its arbitrary and capricious proposal to leave the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter pollution unchanged and to instead strengthen those standards. -
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BOST (IL-12): Illinois Gop Urges Epa to Appeal Court’s Dicamba Decision
U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12), John Shimkus (IL-15), Adam Kinzinger (IL-16), Rodney Davis (IL-13), and Darin LaHood (IL-18) authored a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging an appeal of the recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court that vacated three registrations of dicamba and request a Section 18 Emergency Use Authorization to provide guidance for producers. -
Fifth District grants extension in legal malpractice suit involving $785K Madison County jury verdict; SC ordered appellate court to hear question on punitive damages
The Fifth District Appellate Court granted an extension for a St. Louis law firm and two attorneys to file briefs in an appeal on the question of whether or not punitive damages are recoverable in a legal malpractice suit.