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Susan Theis v. Flowers Baking Co. of Lenexa, LLC
Granite City, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a negligence claims. This case was filed in the Circuit County, Madison County, Illinois, 2025LA168, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. * * * In Illinois, a negligence claim requires proving four elements: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Duty refers to the legal obligation a ...
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( 07-07-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Gary E. Matthews and Monte J. Brannan
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with fraud and money laundering. Gary Matthews and Monte Brannan collaborated on a project to redevelop and revitalize a landmark hotel in Peoria, Illinois. The project was ambitious, complex, and required Matthews and Brannan to arrange financing. But instead of satisfying their obligations to lenders, Matthews ...
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( 07-07-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Dana Curtin
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charge with sex trafficing of children or by force, fraud or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1591. A jury convicted Dana Curtin of attempted sex trafficking of a minor. The government based the charge on text communications between Curtin and a federal agent posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl. The two discussed...
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( 07-07-2025 - IL)

Ferida H. Moy v. Social Security Administration
Chicago, Illinois disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for disability benefits by HHS. Plaintiff Ferida Huskic Moy suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from her harrowing experiences during the brutal wars in the 1990s as the nation of Yugoslavia was breaking up. She applied for disability insurance bene...
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( 07-03-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Francis Eversman, Gregg Crawford
East Saint Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with bank fraud Former bank president and contractor plead guilty to federal charge in loan fraud scheme ...
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( 07-03-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Darren Carlyle Sadler
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with raudulently obtaining more than $14 million in small business loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. California Businessman Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to...
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( 07-03-2025 - IL)

End User Consumer Plaintiff class v. Tyson, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois consumer law law class action lawyers represented the Plaintiff in an anti-trust price fixing case. "In re: Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation" refers to a series of class action lawsuits filed against major broiler chicken producers alleging price-fixing and market manipulation. The lawsuits claim that defendants, including companies like Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride,...
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( 07-02-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Kenneth Loving, Jr.
East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. ...
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( 07-01-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. William Lee
Benton, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute a Methamphetamine Mixture, a Schedule II Controlled Substance....
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( 07-01-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Miguel Angel Morales-Garcia
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. * * * Under U.S. federal law, it is a crime to distribute illegal drugs, which are referred to legally as controlled substances. Any person who manufactures or distributes these substances can face severe criminal penalties, including an extended pri...
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( 06-27-2025 - il)

Thor Zurbriggen v. Twin Hill Acquisition, Inc. and America Airlines, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a produce liability theory. Eleven employees of American Airlines filed a class action complaint on behalf of themselves and thousands of fellow employees alleging that the new uniforms manufactured by Twin Hill Acquisition Co., Inc. had caused a wide variety of health problems. According to the complaint, the...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Mardi Lane
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering....
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Jesus Zambrano v. City of Joliet and Patrick Schumacher
Chicago, Illinois personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theory. Jesus Zambrano was convicted of first-degree murder in an Illinois state court in August 2013, but on appeal the Illinois Appellate Court agreed that the trial court erred in failing to give a jury instruction on accomplice liability. A second trial ensued in which...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Anthony B. Sullers, Sr. v. International Union Elevator Constructors, Local 2
Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination claim. Anthony Sullers, Sr., an elevator mechanic who is African American, brought this action against his union, the International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local 2 (“IUEC” or “the Union”). He alleged that IUEC had breached its duty of fair representation in its handling of his allega...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Mary Ann Arnold v. United Airlines, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination theory. Mary Ann Arnold brought this action against her former employer, United Airlines (“United” or “the Company”), alleging unlawful discrimination and retaliation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) and the Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”). Ms. Arnold also ...
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( 06-27-2025 - IL)

Willaim Brokaw Price, et al. v. Carri Scharf Trucking, Inc., et al.
Peoria, Illinois lawyers represented the parties in a breach of contract dispute. In 1997, plaintiff William Brokaw Price’s parents and defendant Carri Scharf Trucking, Inc. (CST) agreed to a contract for surface-level mining of sand gravel, and topsoil on the Prices’ property.1 When CST’s mining activity dwindled in the mid-2000s, Brokaw’s father Bill Price sent a letter instruct...
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( 06-15-2025 - IL)

Andrea Ratfield, et a. v. United States Drug Testing Laboratories, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois personal injury RICO claim lawyers represented the Plaintiffs and Defendants. Plaintiffs, comprised of Andrea Ratfield, ten other pilots, a physician, a nurse, and an attorney, were all required to undergo alcohol testing to maintain their employment and professional licenses. Here, the testing came in the form of a dried blood spot test developed by United States Drug T...
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( 06-13-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Falandis Russell and Terrance Williams
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery and multiple counts of obstruction of commerce by robbery. For nearly a year and a half, Russell and Williams committed a series of armed commercial robberies throughout Chicago. They were eventually indicted for conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery in v...
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( 06-11-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Jessica Barrera
Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Straw Purchasing Firearms Rockford Woman Sentenced to Nearly Three Years in Prison for Straw Purchasing Firearms A Rockford woman has been sentenced to thirty-two m...
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( 06-11-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Mona Ghosh
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Health Care Fraud Suburban Chicago Physician Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud A federal jury has convicted a man of trafficking six rifles, in...
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( 06-10-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Deaunta Sentrel Tyler
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with attempted robbery. In January 2017, Deaunta Tyler, accompanied by Ledell Tyler and Dalvent Jackson, forcibly entered a home in Rock Island, Illinois, armed with a rifle and a handgun and in search of cocaine. Instead of drugs, they found a family spending a quiet evening together. With weapons brandished, the ...
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( 06-05-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. Antonio Cousins, Jr.
Peoria, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Dedendant seeking pretrial release pursuant to section 110-6.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Under the Act, every person charged with an offense is presumed eligible for pretrial release. 725 ILCS 5/110-2(a), 6.1(e) (West 2022); People v. Mikolaitis, 2024 IL 130693, ¶ 16. To detain a defendant, the State must file a ...
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( 06-03-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Awad Odeh
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million Suburban Chicago Businessman Charged With Swindling Investors out of $3.6 Million A suburban Chicago businessman ...
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( 05-22-2025 - IL)

United States of America v. Gretchen Alvarez
Rockford, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns Rockford Woman Pleads Guilty to Preparing and Filing False Income Tax Returns A Rockford woman pleaded gu...
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( 05-21-2025 - IL)

The People of the State of Illinois v. William C. Wiklerson
Cairo, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted first degree murder. On October 16, 2013, Clifford Williams was a customer at a gas station when the defendant shot him multiple times. At the time, the defendant was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by his girlfriend, Samantha Dean. On October 18, 2013, the defendant was charged with attempt mu...
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( 05-20-2025 - IL)

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