Illinois News
May 17, 2012
American Lawyer |
May 17, 2012
Last month we told you about how lawyers at Winston & Strawn and Venable lost a jurisdictional battle with close to 300 plaintiffs in six cases claiming Abbott Laboratories' anti-seizure drug Depakote causes birth defects. A federal judge in East St. Louis, Ill., sided with the plaintiffs' lawyers at Bracewell & Giuliani and remanded the cases to state court, ruling that Abbott had failed to show that the litigation was subject to removal as a "mass action" under the federal Class Action Fairness Act.
Tags: Class Action, Illinois
April 19, 2012
Madison St. Clair Record |
April 19, 2012
The General Assembly is weeks away from adjourning for the summer. So far this legislative session, the leaders in both the House and Senate have refused to allow any lawsuit reform legislation to advance.
April 16, 2012
Legal Newsline |
April 16, 2012
Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth on Wednesday granted Plaintiff Ronald Ball's withdrawal of a motion for default judgment against defendant Pepsico, Inc. and Pepsi Cola General Bottlers.
Tags: Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
April 3, 2012
Belleville News-Democrat |
April 3, 2012
When Associate Judge Clarence Harrison recently discontinued his predecessor's practice of handing out trial slots to asbestos law firms before they even filed cases, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce praised him for taking the obviously needed action.
March 31, 2012
Belleville News-Democrat |
March 31, 2012
A Madison County judge has ended a system that allowed plaintiff firms in asbestos cases to reserve trial dates before a case had even been filed.
Tags: Asbestos, Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
March 30, 2012
American Lawyer Litigation Daily |
March 30, 2012
Is tort reform by judicial decree becoming a nationwide trend? That's the question we were pondering after word came late Thursday that a state court judge in Madison County, Ill., had ordered an end to the court's practice of allotting trial dates to local asbestos plaintiffs firms before they had filed any cases. The order was hailed by defense advocacy groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Tort Reform Association, which have long criticized Madison County's system on the grounds that it allowed local firms to market their trial slots to out-of-state plaintiffs.
Tags: Asbestos, Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
Point of Law |
March 30, 2012
After recent controversy involving Judge Barbara Crowder, who was removed from the asbestos docket after her campaign committee received $30,000 from plaintiffs' lawyers shortly after she awarded their firms most of the court's 2013 trial times, asbestos trials will now be set on a case-by-case basis.
Tags: Asbestos, Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
LegalNewsline.com |
March 30, 2012
Madison County, Ill., Associate Judge Clarence Harrison has entered an order terminating the court's 2013 advance setting of asbestos trial weeks.
Tags: Asbestos, Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
Institute for Legal Reform |
March 30, 2012
Madison County Circuit Judge Clarence Harrison has ended the pre-assignment of asbestos trials to plaintiffs’ law firms. Trials will instead be set on a case-by-case basis. The decision comes three months after Judge Barbara Crowder, whose campaign committee received $30,000 from plaintiffs’ lawyers shortly after she awarded their firms most of the court’s 2013 trial times, was removed from the asbestos docket.
March 29, 2012
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
March 29, 2012
Law firms will no longer be allowed to reserve trial dates for asbestos cases that aren't on file, a judge ordered late on Thursday.
Tags: Asbestos, Illinois, Trial Lawyers' Influence
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