Burkart
The Fifth District Appellate Court gave Bradley Lavite, Superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County, until June 1 to file a reply brief in his appeal involving a $1 million funding dispute.
Lavite and the Veterans’ Assistance Commission (VAC) filed a notice of appeal to the Fifth District on Aug. 3 through attorney Thomas Burkart of Hamel. In a previous motion for an appealable order, Burkart wrote that the plaintiffs respectfully disagree with former Madison County Circuit Judge David Dugan’s order granting the motion to dismiss filed by defendants Debra Ming-Mendoza, Mark von Nida and Madison County. Dugan is now a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
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Originally published on January 9, 2021 6:24 pm
Correction: This story has been corrected and clarified. Veterans were unable to get immediate access to donated name-brand toiletries due to a process that has since been changed, but the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs says residents never went without basic personal care supplies if they ran out.
The Coronavirus outbreak at the state-run LaSalle Veterans’ Home claimed a 36th life earlier this week, though the spread within the home has been in control for weeks after infecting 90% of residents and killing more than a quarter of the facility’s population.
But during the deadliest days of the outbreak in November, some residents were not able to get access to donated toiletries due to an antiquated policy that’s been changed in recent weeks. The old policy meant that residents at the facility would have to wait up to a week for access to donated supplies of name-brand shampoo, toothpaste or other personal care item