Tillery
BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.
In 2003, after a bench trial, late Madison County judge Nicholas Byron awarded more than $10 billion to a class of cigarette smokers Tillery represented.
The few American cases with higher judgments, such as state tobacco litigation in the 1990s and Deepwater Horizon explosion suits, ended in settlement.
Tillery retreated from the field of class actions after the state Supreme Court and Congress restricted them, though he has returned as ambitious as ever.
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Schneidewind
BENTON – Prairie State Generating and a Kentucky business settled a claim that exterior wall panels at Prairie State’s power plant in Washington County failed.
The power company and panel provider Centria announced an agreement to Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert on March 25.
They followed through with a joint stipulation on March 29.
Files show the plant cost $28 million including $4.6 million for the panels.
Prairie State retained David Schneidewind of Boyle Brasher in Belleville, and he sued Centria in Washington County circuit court in 2018.
The suit claimed general contractor A.C. Dellovade contracted with Centria to design and manufacture panels, and Centria provided a warranty to cover the finishing coat for 20 years.
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Carpenter
BENTON – Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ordered Edwardsville lawyer Brian Wendler to pay fees and costs for defendants that litigated in the wrong court for seven months due to an error he committed.
Gilbert passed the bill to Wendler on March 26, in the process of remanding the case to St. Clair County where it began.
Trailer maker Cottrell Inc. and its contractor Cambarloc Engineering had removed it to district court on the basis of information Wendler provided.
Wendler represents Jack Cooper Transport car hauler Jimmy D. Hill, who claims he injured his left hand and arm while using a defective ratchet.