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EAST ST. LOUIS A man found guilty of theft for allegedly obtaining control of a Granite City property by deception is suing the State Appellate Public Defender s office, alleging literally decades of delays in securing representation has affected his appeal of the verdict.
Jerry Yeager, Jr., individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed a complaint March 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Office of the State Appellate Defender, Thomas Breen, Carol Brook, James Brusatte and others in their official capacities as commissioners of the Board of the State Appellate Defender, alleging violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Yeager is represented by Thomas Maag of The Maag Law Firm LLC in Wood River.
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An Illinois firearms owner is asking the court not to allow the federal government to file supplemental authority of two unrelated cases in a bump stock class action that “has been ready for a decision for about a year.”
The class action seeks immunity for those who legally purchased bump stock devices prior to the passing of the “Final Rule,” which classifies the device as machine guns and prohibits their possession.
John Doe filed an objection to the government’s motion for leave to file notice of supplemental authority on Feb. 22 through attorney Thomas Maag of Maag Law Firm LLC in Wood River.
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The parents of a Granite City woman ask the court to sanction a man and his attorney for filing a lawsuit accusing them of failing to protect the man’s brother, who they claim abused their daughter, broke into a home they didn’t own, and was shot and killed when they weren’t there.
Defendants Marvin and Cynthia Mills filed a motion for sanctions through attorney Thomas Maag of the Maag Law Firm in Wood River. They seek sanctions against plaintiff Ronald Wilderness and attorney Derek Rudman of St. Louis “for filing, serving and prosecuting an utterly frivolous case.”
EDWARDSVILLE Two sisters are suing an attorney for allegedly failing to obtain a signature on their mother s will, resulting in a portion of her estate going to their late brother s children.
Colleen Wilkerson and Sharon Hudlin-Morris filed a complaint Dec. 9 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Edward McCarthy.
According to the complaint, the plaintiffs are the two surviving daughters whose mother died in 2020. They allege that their mother retained McCarthy to draft her will in 2012 and then again in 2018 after their brother died. They further allege their mother wished her estate to go to them and that no portion of their mother s estate was to go to her then late son s children.