Thursday, May 2, 2024
Doctors would gain the ability to more easily learn patients’ end-of-life wishes under a measure advancing in Springfield.
The lawsuit is one of many claims made nationwide that the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac and its generics have an active ingredient that causes cancer. This is the first to make it to a jury trial.
A Black retired judge from Chicago said she was flying first class when an American Airlines flight attendant accused her of slamming the first-class restroom door and later directed her to use the facilities in the back of the plane.
The Office of State Appellate Defender has filed an appeal on behalf of former Quincy resident Timothy Bliefnick in the case that sent him to prison for life.
The next Looking for Lincoln Conversation will revisit one of his most famous legal cases, with a tie to the Quad Cities. In the Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Co. (aka the Effie Afton Case), a boat/bridge collision brought the fight of established river interests of St. Louis versus the growing railroad interests of Chicago.