Lawsuit

A federal judge accepted the joint dismissal of the lawsuit against Prairie State Generating Co. Both the coal plant and the Illinois Sierra Club praised the conclusion.

The legislation also gives the attorney general the ability to appeal preliminary injunctions on ongoing cases.

A case brought to the Illinois Supreme Court by House Republican Leader Tony McCombie asked the court to reject the current legislative map for its partisan bias and have a special master redraw the districts.

A right-leaning online publication had posted the birth dates and home addresses of hundreds of thousands of Illinois registered voters.

Malin and attorney Dave Roland are trying to have a county prosecutor held in contempt for failing to turn over records.

Rayven Calloway was hired last year as a turnaround principal for KIPP St. Louis High School in Midtown.

Under Trump, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s moved to dismiss the lawsuit against Sis-Bro Inc., a pig farm in rural New Athens.

Frank Bergman, the county’s HR director until his termination in 2023, states in the lawsuit and other court filings that an investigation he was conducting into several employees’ allegations in the fall of 2022 revealed “inappropriate actions."

Attorneys at Simon Law say the family reluctantly agreed to settle for $67,000 less than the state's cap on damages, to avoid the financial and emotional cost of taking the case to trial.

The settled lawsuits involved allegations that St. Clair County did not pay overtime compensation to employees and that sheriff’s deputies injured two people detained at the jail.