October 8, 2014
Ceremony Rededicates Renovated Illinois Supreme Court Building From the Springfield State Journal-Register Illinois Supreme Court justices and guests officially rededicated the newly renovated...
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Drug Testing Is Central Theme In St. Clair County Judicial Race: Rudolf v. McGlynn From the Madison County Record When St. Clair County judge Michael Cook was arrested last year on heroin possession...
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Quinn-Rauner Debate: Each Casts Other As State's Worst Nightmare From the Chicago Sun-Times In their first live, televised debate, Republican Bruce Rauner and Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday night clashed...
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Workers Comp Reform Hasn't Helped The Construction Industry From Crain's Chicago Business It's been three years since sweeping reforms to Illinois workers' compensation laws reduced the costs for...
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Governor Debates Round 2: Are Voters Tired Of Sniping? From the Chicago Daily Herald Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican businessman Bruce Rauner meet for their second televised debate in Chicago...
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ISBA Releases Downstate Bar Surveys From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin To replace one judge, choose another. That’s the message members of the Illinois State Bar Association in the Metro East area...
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Screenings For Ebola To Start At O'Hare Today From the Chicago Daily Herald Fever screenings are set to begin at O'Hare International Airport on today. Dr. Julie Morita, chief medical officer of...
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Bar Groups Split On Two Cook Retention Candidates From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Two Cook County circuit judges have received negative retention ratings from several bar groups. But other members...
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Tribune Endorsements: Cook County Judicial Races From the Chicago Tribune Voters in Cook County will find the usual sea of judicial candidates on the ballot in the Nov. 4 election. Here's the maddening...
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‘Shadow’ Group Is Funding Karmeier Attack, Campaign Says From the Madison County Record More than a half million dollars has been spent to undermine the retention of Illinois Supreme Court Justice...
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Luechtefeld: Plaintiff Attorneys Trying To Cash In By Getting Karmeier Off High Court From the Belleville News-Democrat State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld says a handful of lawyers hoping to score a big...
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Clifford Firm Contributes $150K To Unseat Justice On Same Day He’s In Court Saying Campaign Money Corrupted Supreme Court From the Madison County Record On the day Chicago lawyer Robert Clifford’s firm...
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Illinois Ballot Machine Changes Votes From Republican to Democrat From Town Hall As liberals and Democrats continue to argue voter fraud doesn't exist, voting machines in Cook County Illinois are...
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10 Years Later, Karmeier Fight Has Same Flavor From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin For Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier, what’s past is prologue this election season. Ten years after...
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Tribune: A Vote Of Confidence For Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier From the Chicago Tribune Ten years ago, an election to fill a vacancy on the Illinois Supreme Court turned into a high-stakes...
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Asbestos Trial Settings Are ‘Trigger’ For Overwhelming Madison Docket From the Madison County Record That 90 percent of asbestos cases in Madison County are filed for out of state residents is not the...
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Audit: Two-thirds Of Chicago's Elevators Uninspected From the Associated Press An audit by Chicago's inspector general has determined two-thirds of the city's elevators were not inspected last year....
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Anti-retention Group Stops Payment On Checks Sent To Democrat Committees After Karmeier Campaign Files Complaint From the Madison County Record The organization seeking to oust Justice Lloyd Karmeier...
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From the Chicago Tribune One of the many downsides of an elected judiciary is that voters typically have little information about the candidates whose names appear on the ballot. That’s because judges...
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Voice Of The Southern: Retain Karmeier From the Carbondale Southern Illinoisan We’re so tired of negative campaign ads that we may actually be immune to them. We’re sick of the negativity; we’re sick...
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