MOUNT VERNON – Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Aug. 10 that a suit against Ed Hightower’s plan to build 40 affordable homes in Alton copied a suit the city lost in 2019.
The Fifth District Appellate Court found that the state’s new weapons ban violates the equal protection clause for the right to keep and bear arms under the Illinois Constitution, affirming a temporary restraining order and banning the state from enforcing the controversial law.
The Fifth District Appellate Court found that the state’s new weapons ban violates the equal protection clause for the right to keep and bear arms under the Illinois Constitution, affirming a temporary restraining order and banning the state from enforcing the controversial law.
SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court Justices chose not to disturb an appellate court decision that Union Pacific deserved a second trial because St. Clair County Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf allowed inflammatory and improper closing argument.
MOUNT VERNON – Home builder and remodeler Kevin Link of Granite City challenged his conviction on a city ordinance without a lawyer and his arguments stood up those of two lawyers and the reasoning of two judges.