Justice's Legal Foes Continue Their Attack
From the Champaign News-Gazette
Fighting over money is sssooooooooo distasteful.
But when $10.1 billion is up for grabs, what are a bunch of cash-mad lawyers to do?
So it is no great surprise that trial lawyers pursuing the Great White Whale of civil judgments are trying — for the third time — to force a judge they consider unfriendly — Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier — off the case.
Led by Stephen Tillery of St. Louis, they filed a legal motion last summer asking Karmeier not to participate in the impending review of Price vs. Philip Morris because of a "perception" that he is biased.
High court justices unanimously denied the motion, Karmeier writing a 16-page decision explaining why the lawyers' charges were false.
"A judge is as much obliged not to recuse himself when it is not called for as he is obliged to when it is," he wrote.
Tillery & Co. then took another tack in their plan for judicial defenestration. They organized a lavish television advertising campaign to defeat Karmeier's bid for retention last November.
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From the Champaign News-Gazette
Fighting over money is sssooooooooo distasteful.
But when $10.1 billion is up for grabs, what are a bunch of cash-mad lawyers to do?
So it is no great surprise that trial lawyers pursuing the Great White Whale of civil judgments are trying — for the third time — to force a judge they consider unfriendly — Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier — off the case.
Led by Stephen Tillery of St. Louis, they filed a legal motion last summer asking Karmeier not to participate in the impending review of Price vs. Philip Morris because of a "perception" that he is biased.
High court justices unanimously denied the motion, Karmeier writing a 16-page decision explaining why the lawyers' charges were false.
"A judge is as much obliged not to recuse himself when it is not called for as he is obliged to when it is," he wrote.
Tillery & Co. then took another tack in their plan for judicial defenestration. They organized a lavish television advertising campaign to defeat Karmeier's bid for retention last November.
Read more in our daily News Update...