Alton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center denies negligence in a wrongful death suit filed in Madison County in February.

Represented by C. Zachary Vaughn of Wiedner and McAuliffe in St. Louis, the facility denied all allegations brought by Linda J. Garrett on behalf of nursing home resident June Pearl Sisson

Garrett claims the facility failed to obtain medical treatment for Sisson on April 13, 2014, when she suffered a medical emergency later determined to be a stroke. The suit claims nursing home employees were aware at the time of Sisson's medical emergency.

Garrett claims the defendant violated the Nursing Home Care Act.

She seeks a sum in excess of $50,000, court costs and other relief the court deems proper. She is represented by Robert H. Gregory of the Law Office of Robert H. Gregory PC in East Alton.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 16-L-215

Defendants in a Madison County medical malpractice suit deny they are negligent in failing to correctly diagnose a patient's leg pain.

Anderson Hospital emergency room physicians Price Omondi and Stephen Coulson answered a suit filed by Deron Gatling in January, further denying that the claimant was injured to the extent he is pleading.

Gatling claims that on Jan. 31, 2014, he sought treatment at the hospital for left lower extremity pain after playing basketball for four hours.

He claims the doctors performed a physical examination and ordered testing, but they did not recognize he had compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis. The suit further claims the defendants only treated the plaintiff with pain medication, which masked the problems.

He further claims he went to Christian Northeast Hospital the next day where he was correctly diagnosed and underwent multiple surgeries and a lengthy stay.

The doctors are represented by Terese Drew of Hinshaw and Culbertson in St. Louis.

Their affirmative defenses further state that Gatling's alleged injuries were the result of the conduct of others.

Gatling seeks in excess of $50,000 in damages. He is represented by Thomas O. Falb of Williamson, Webster, Falb & Glisson of Alton.

Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth presides.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 16-L-98

Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth has dismissed with prejudice the first major civil case filed in 2016.

Juan C. Stepney had filed suit Jan. 4 over the injuries he allegedly suffered when the tire of a tractor-trailer became loose and hit his vehicle.

Stepney, represented by B. Jay Dowling of Sterling and Dowling PC in Belleville, had sought in excess of $50,000 in damages from William D. Bergschneider, also known as Doug Bergschneider, individually and doing business as Doug Bergschneider Trucking, and Ralph F. Steward.

Stepney's suit claimed that on Jan. 14, 2014, he was driving his vehicle northbound on U.S. Interstate 255 in Collinsville, when a tire flew off the truck owned by Bergschneider and operated by Steward in a southbound lane.

Dowling had filed a motion to dismiss on June 24. Ruth entered an order granting the motion the same day.

Defense counsel had not been entered in the case, according to the docket.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 16-L-1

Eunice Smith Home in Alton denies negligence in a lawsuit brought by a woman who claims her husband fractured his spine while walking unassisted, which later led to his death.

Jean Campbell, as executor of the estate of her late husband, Ira S. Campbell, claims the fall incident occurred on Feb. 13, 2015, which caused him to suffer a marked deterioration in his health. He died April 10, 2015, the suit claims.

Because of his injuries, the lawsuit states, Ira Campbell's estate became liable for large sums of money for medical care while he was trying to regain his health. He also suffered pain and anguish as well as permanent disability, the suit says.

Defense attorneys at Sandberg Phoenix and von Gontard argue that the damages suffered by Campbell "resulted solely from the acts or omissions of other persons or entities for which this Defendant is neither liable nor responsible."

Jean Campbell seeks at least $50,000, plus court costs. She is represented by attorney Robert H. Gregory of the Law Office of Robert H. Gregory PC in East Alton.

Circuit Judge William Mudge presides. A case management conference is set July 27.

Madison County Circuit Court case number 16-L-83

Monday, August 1

9 a.m.

HERNDON ROBERT INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORPORATION
13-L-000110, ASBESTOS J 327

Friday, August 5

9 a.m.

DALTON STEPHEN G INDIVIDUALLY V. AFC HOLCROFT LLC C/O CORPORATI
11-L-001230, ASBESTOS J 327

EDWARDS RICHARD V. AFTON PUMPS INC
15-L-001323, ASBESTOS J 327

ELLIOTT KIMBERLY INDIVIDUALLY V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
14-L-001583, ASBESTOS J 327

GUALANDI JOHN V. AGCO CORP DBA AGCO FARM EQUIPM
14-L-000412, ASBESTOS J 327

BOCKERICH RAYMOND V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-001367, ASBESTOS J 327

TODD AUBREY JR V. 4520 CORP INC
14-L-001172, ASBESTOS J 327

ABREU MARCIA ANN INDIVIDUALLY V. AW CHESTERTON INC
14-L-001698, ASBESTOS J 327

COMPARETTO JOHN V. ADVANCED AUTO PARTS INC FKA WE
15-L-000168, ASBESTOS J 327

MANCIL DONNA MAE TERRY INDIVID V. ABITIBI CONSOLIDATED FKA DONOH
15-L-000280, ASBESTOS J 327

ODOM SANDRA V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-000952, ASBESTOS J 327

BROUGHTEN JAMES V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-000992, ASBESTOS J 327

FORESTER GEOFFREY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-001232, ASBESTOS J 327

FLEMING JOHN V. ALLIED INSULATION SUPPLY CO IN
15-L-001521, ASBESTOS J 327

HOVATER GLENN V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
15-L-001663, ASBESTOS J 327

KINNEY WENDELL V. 4520 CORP INC SUCCESSOR IN INT
16-L-000258, ASBESTOS J 327

SWANSON RONALD V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
16-L-000427, ASBESTOS J 327

CONNARD WILLIAM V. 4520 CORP INC FKA BENJAMIN F S
16-L-000440, ASBESTOS J 327

GRAVES GEORGE ANDREW INDIVIDUA V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
14-L-000670, ASBESTOS J 327

HOWARD PATRICIA V. ALLIANCE LAUNDRY HOLDINGS LLC
14-L-000789, ASBESTOS J 327

ANDRADE ROSIE INDIVIDUALLY V. ACF INDUSTRIES
14-L-000888, ASBESTOS J 327

TOTH LEANN THE ESTATE OF JAMES V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC FKA WES
14-L-001033, ASBESTOS J 327

GRANT DELORAS V. 84 LUMBER
14-L-001185, ASBESTOS J 327

GILES HAZEL INDIVIDUALLY V. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO
14-L-001491, ASBESTOS J 327

CALOW GLENDA JUNE INDIVIDUALLY V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-000297, ASBESTOS J 327

CAVAN THOMAS JR INDIVIDUALLY V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-000372, ASBESTOS J 327

MARTIN RICHARD W V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
15-L-000703, ASBESTOS J 327

LUNDOCK MARY V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPOR
15-L-000808, ASBESTOS J 327

DOUGLAS GLADYS V. 4520 CORP INC SUCC TO THE SHAW
15-L-000853, ASBESTOS J 327

AVANT MARSHELL W V. TKD INC FKA JOHNSTON PUMP COMP
15-L-001171, ASBESTOS J 327

BUNTING BARBARA INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
15-L-000741, ASBESTOS J 327

CROSS RANDY INDIVIDUALLY V. AFTON PUMPS INC
15-L-000880, ASBESTOS J 327

GIBSON HARVEY V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-000898, ASBESTOS J 327

SHIFFLETT ROGER V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-000964, ASBESTOS J 327

LATRONICA VINCENT V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS
15-L-001189, ASBESTOS J 327

PAJACZKOWSKI WALTER V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS
15-L-001203, ASBESTOS J 327

PELTO SARAH J V. 3M COMPANY FKA MINNESOTA MININ
15-L-001246, ASBESTOS J 327

ARROYO BALDERAS EDGARDO V. AMERON INTERNATIONAL CORP SUCC
15-L-001251, ASBESTOS J 327

GADDIS MITCHELL V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-001492, ASBESTOS J 327

LESLIE ARTHUR V. SPX COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC I
15-L-001506, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH HAZEL INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-001512, ASBESTOS J 327

LONES DALE V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC
15-L-001651, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH DANNY V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-001665, ASBESTOS J 327

FRAHM GARY V. 3M COMPANY FKA MINNESOTA MININ
15-L-001687, ASBESTOS J 327

HOLM JACQUELINE INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000068, ASBESTOS J 327

SHERMER DOROTHY INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000133, ASBESTOS J 327

WEYGANDT RONALD V. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC COMPAN
16-L-000172, ASBESTOS J 327

HICKS ROBERT INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000282, ASBESTOS J 327

KUNES BERNARD V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000286, ASBESTOS J 327

MONDARY RONALD V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000294, ASBESTOS J 327

REA RALPH V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
16-L-000344, ASBESTOS J 327

MATTHEWS JOANNE L V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
16-L-000423, ASBESTOS J 327

SCOTT MARY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000467, ASBESTOS J 327

ANDERSON STANLEY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000531, ASBESTOS J 327

FITZMAURICE ANNIE M INDIVIDUAL V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000568, ASBESTOS J 327

GOODMAN CLEVEN DOUGLAS V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
16-L-000576, ASBESTOS J 327

BROWN JOYCE INDIVIDUALLY V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
16-L-000597, ASBESTOS J 327

ZAMBONI JAMES V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000654, ASBESTOS J 327

ROBERTS MARGARET V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000670, ASBESTOS J 327

DAVIDSON WILLIAM H V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000677, ASBESTOS J 327

PERKINS CLYDE V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000697, ASBESTOS J 327

MAURER HERBIE ALLEN V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
16-L-000712, ASBESTOS J 327

TYLER EUGENE V. 4520 CORP INC SUCCESSOR IN INT
16-L-000737, ASBESTOS J 327

BARNETT ERLENE V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000748, ASBESTOS J 327

SLICE JOHN V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000767, ASBESTOS J 327

OLSON CHARLOTTE INDIVIDUALLY V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000780, ASBESTOS J 327

QUIJAS YVONNE INDIVIDUALLY V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000781, ASBESTOS J 327

ARMSTEAD DONALD V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000809, ASBESTOS J 327

THOMAS JOHN E V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
12-L-002006, ASBESTOS J 327

PARKER RUSSELL V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
13-L-001153, ASBESTOS J 327

RYDER DIANA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO INC
14-L-001346, ASBESTOS J 327

SPINDLE CAROL INDIVIDUALLY V. ADVANCED COMPOSITES GROUP
14-L-001368, ASBESTOS J 327

ROBERTSON DENNIS V. 5 STAR CONSTRUCTION CO
14-L-001727, ASBESTOS J 327

ROCHELLE DOROTHY JEAN INDIVIDU V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-000058, ASBESTOS J 327

BUTLER RALPH I V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-000140, ASBESTOS J 327

RUTLEDGE BRYAN V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000054, ASBESTOS J 327

WATTS SANDRA D INDIVIDUALLY V. 4520 CORP INC FKA BENJAMIN F
12-L-002032, ASBESTOS J 327

OTT JEREMIAH V. ACE HARDWARE CORPORATION
13-L-000307, ASBESTOS J 327

WILLIAMS GEORGIA FAYE INDIVIDU V. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS S
13-L-000387, ASBESTOS J 327

BALLENGER HURLEY V. ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC AS SUCC
13-L-001410, ASBESTOS J 327

DEGREGORIO RICHARD V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
13-L-001901, ASBESTOS J 327

PYATT MELVA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO INC
13-L-002203, ASBESTOS J 327

HAYES JANET L INDIVIDUALLY V. AFTON PUMPS INC
14-L-000026, ASBESTOS J 327

PRITCHARD ROBERT V. 601W COMPANIES
14-L-000073, ASBESTOS J 327

GUERRERO GREGORY INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
14-L-000676, ASBESTOS J 327

HUMPHREYS JAMES INDIVIDUALLY V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
14-L-000971, ASBESTOS J 327

KNAB GRETA INDIVIDUALLY V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-000997, ASBESTOS J 327

COSTIC PEARLIE INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
14-L-001083, ASBESTOS J 327

DZEN NOLA INDIVIDUALLY V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-001271, ASBESTOS J 327

BAUER CONRAD V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-001362, ASBESTOS J 327

HOLTZCLAW WILLIAM V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
14-L-001509, ASBESTOS J 327

MASCARENAS ESQUIPULA M V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
14-L-001586, ASBESTOS J 327

JONAS ANTHONY V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-001624, ASBESTOS J 327

ANDREWS KEITH SPEC ADM OF THE V. 84 LUMBER
14-L-001688, ASBESTOS J 327

JENKINS ZULEKA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
14-L-001714, ASBESTOS J 327

TUCKER SUSAN V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-000023, ASBESTOS J 327

DAVIS JOHN E V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-000030, ASBESTOS J 327

WEBER MARYELLEN INDIVIDUALLY A V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-000057, ASBESTOS J 327

MASTERSON DAVID B INDIVIDUALLY V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-000213, ASBESTOS J 327

BILLUPS LOUISE INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-000227, ASBESTOS J 327

TVEDTEN DIANE R V. SQUARE D CO
15-L-000313, ASBESTOS J 327

FRYE MARTHA V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-000352, ASBESTOS J 327

LUNDY THOMAS V. 4520 CORP INC SUCCESSOR IN INT
15-L-000417, ASBESTOS J 327

KORTZ OTIS V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-000506, ASBESTOS J 327

SIDBURY WILLIAM V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC FKA WES
15-L-000744, ASBESTOS J 327

TATUM JERRY V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-000792, ASBESTOS J 327

MOYER PRESTON L V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
15-L-000947, ASBESTOS J 327

FEDER FRIEDHELM V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-001086, ASBESTOS J 327

COMMANDER JOHNNY V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-001108, ASBESTOS J 327

MARK THOMAS W V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-001154, ASBESTOS J 327

CUCCHIARA JAMES V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-001205, ASBESTOS J 327

DESMARAIS CAROL V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
15-L-001295, ASBESTOS J 327

BLALOCK DONALD V. AFTON PUMPS INC
15-L-001302, ASBESTOS J 327

ARTHAUD DELBERT WAYNE INDIVIDU V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-001345, ASBESTOS J 327

VINCICZKY ALEXANDER V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-001417, ASBESTOS J 327

HUBBARD JOSEPH W JR V. 3M COMPANY FKA MINNESOTA MININ
15-L-001495, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH HAZEL INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-001512, ASBESTOS J 327

RASSEL TODD V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-001590, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH KENNITH E V. BOEING COMPANY THE
15-L-001659, ASBESTOS J 327

STAVELY DARRIS J V. 3M CO
15-L-001689, ASBESTOS J 327

RAWLINGS CHERYL V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000015, ASBESTOS J 327

MENZ GARY V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000037, ASBESTOS J 327

CLEVENGER MICHAEL V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000106, ASBESTOS J 327

ZAK FRANCIS JR INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000158, ASBESTOS J 327

PIERCE WARREN V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
16-L-000195, ASBESTOS J 327

HUNTLEY WILLIAM V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000310, ASBESTOS J 327

RIFFLE JAMES V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000324, ASBESTOS J 327

ATKINSON RICHARD V. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORATI
16-L-000328, ASBESTOS J 327

AMIGONI ALBERT V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000345, ASBESTOS J 327

SEVERINO JOSEPH E V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000347, ASBESTOS J 327

BELL ELMER V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000349, ASBESTOS J 327

RICHARDSON BARBARA V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000369, ASBESTOS J 327

HECKENMUELLER JOHN V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000384, ASBESTOS J 327

JOHNSON MELVIN V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000414, ASBESTOS J 327

SHOCKLEY CARL E INDIVIDUALLY V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000417, ASBESTOS J 327

FOSTER ALFRED V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000438, ASBESTOS J 327

CLARK SHADOW V. AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY NKA
16-L-000464, ASBESTOS J 327

KRUPA JACQUELINE INDIVIDUALLY V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000508, ASBESTOS J 327

YOUNG GENE V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000524, ASBESTOS J 327

CUMMINGS BILLY V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000606, ASBESTOS J 327

LEE MARY P INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000698, ASBESTOS J 327

JAMES STANLEY D V. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS S
16-L-000716, ASBESTOS J 327

TYLER EUGENE V. 4520 CORP INC SUCCESSOR IN INT
16-L-000737, ASBESTOS J 327

HANNA ALICE V. 4520 CORP INC SUCCESSOR IN INT
16-L-000784, ASBESTOS J 327

CORMIER ROBERT V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
16-L-000810, ASBESTOS J 327

YARBROUGH DONALD AND V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000561, ASBESTOS J 327

MULLINS BOBBY E V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, INC
12-L-000403, ASBESTOS J 327

ZABONICK CLARENCE V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC
12-L-000694, ASBESTOS J 327

NEWMAN STEPHEN V. ACF INDUSTRIES LLC
12-L-000778, ASBESTOS J 327

ARNOLD RONALD INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
12-L-001081, ASBESTOS J 327

WOLF JAMES V. BASF CATALYST LLC
13-L-000168, ASBESTOS J 327

VEST CLIFFORD JR V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
13-L-000319, ASBESTOS J 327

TACKETT TROY V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
13-L-000843, ASBESTOS J 327

WALDROUPE ANDY V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
13-L-000860, ASBESTOS J 327

KIEFER MARIA INDIVIDUALLY V. ASBESTOS CORPORATION LTD
13-L-001595, ASBESTOS J 327

BROWN LONNIE V. AEROQUIP CORPORATION
12-L-001831, ASBESTOS J 327

MCCAIN CYNTHIA INDIVIDUALLY V. AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC
13-L-001143, ASBESTOS J 327

KISER KATHRYN INDIVIDUALLY V. AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC
13-L-001444, ASBESTOS J 327

DAGENHART RONALD V. AGCO CORPORATION FKA MASSEY FE
14-L-000310, ASBESTOS J 327

KINCAID VELMA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY
14-L-000883, ASBESTOS J 327

CRANE WILLIAM R V. A W CHESTERTON CO
14-L-000966, ASBESTOS J 327

JOHNSTON MARY N INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
14-L-001173, ASBESTOS J 327

RALEIGH MARGARET INDIVIDUALLY V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
14-L-001369, ASBESTOS J 327

NELSON JOSEPH V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC AKA ADV
14-L-001402, ASBESTOS J 327

ORUM RONALD V. ALCATEL LUCENT USA INC FKA LUC
14-L-001461, ASBESTOS J 327

JANZ LORRAINE INDIVIDUALLY V. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP SUCC
15-L-000963, ASBESTOS J 327

EHRENREITER DEBRA V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-001012, ASBESTOS J 327

STURDEVANT MATTHEW V. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP SUCC
15-L-001051, ASBESTOS J 327

ALLEN BARBARA V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-001381, ASBESTOS J 327

MANN ANNA INDIVIDUALLY V. DAIMLER TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA L
15-L-000937, ASBESTOS J 327

LANE ALAN V. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORATI
15-L-001403, ASBESTOS J 327

KELLY BRUCE V. 3M COMPANY
15-L-001619, ASBESTOS J 327

VRANA JAMES V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000033, ASBESTOS J 327

MUENSTER MARY V. A SCHULMAN INC
16-L-000277, ASBESTOS J 327

BAVOSI ARTHUR V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000386, ASBESTOS J 327

CASILLAS RODOLFO V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000541, ASBESTOS J 327

CHAUNCEY PATSY ANN INDIVIDUALL V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000699, ASBESTOS J 327

HOGAN JEAN V. 84 LUMBER
16-L-000707, ASBESTOS J 327

CONTOS JOHN V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS
15-L-000476, ASBESTOS J 327

GREVEN THEODORUS F V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
15-L-000559, ASBESTOS J 327

BITTER ROBERTA INDIVIDUALLY V. ABP INDUCTION LLC
15-L-000630, ASBESTOS J 327

WILSON EDWARD V. AH BENNETT COMPANY
15-L-000685, ASBESTOS J 327

QUASH RUSSELL SR V. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP SUCC
15-L-000825, ASBESTOS J 327

MCGINLEY WILLIAM V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-001150, ASBESTOS J 327

MARK THOMAS W V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-001154, ASBESTOS J 327

LAUVE DONALD V. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP SUCC
15-L-001349, ASBESTOS J 327

FISCHER DALE V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-001441, ASBESTOS J 327

FODE PAMELA P INDIVIDUALLY V. ABB INC SUCC TO ITE ELECTRICAL
15-L-001583, ASBESTOS J 327

FISCUS DEBRA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORP
15-L-001606, ASBESTOS J 327

PIERCE WARREN V. AII ACQUISITIONS LLC FKA AII A
16-L-000195, ASBESTOS J 327

BREITMOSER CAROL V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000262, ASBESTOS J 327

HUNTLEY WILLIAM V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000310, ASBESTOS J 327

BUSH UNA G INDIVIDUALLY V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000521, ASBESTOS J 327

SNELSON LEMUEL V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
16-L-000562, ASBESTOS J 327

ANNE DANIEL V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000588, ASBESTOS J 327

CORZINE JAMES V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000602, ASBESTOS J 327

PAULSEN DON V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-000023, ASBESTOS J 327

DIAMOND LIVIA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN OPTICAL CORPORATION
14-L-001052, ASBESTOS J 327

LEVIS OBVIDIO W V. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP AS
16-L-000706, ASBESTOS J 327

HATTERICK LINDA INDIVIDUALLY V. AKZO NOBEL PAINTS LLC FKA GLID
12-L-000069, ASBESTOS J 327

GREER CHARLES E V. AKZO NOBEL PAINTS LLC FKA GLID
12-L-000081, ASBESTOS J 327

SADIS EVELYN M INDIVIDUALLY V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
12-L-000324, ASBESTOS J 327

WAGNER LAVERN L II V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
12-L-000264, ASBESTOS J 327

MAY LINDA J V. ACF INDUSTRIES LLC
12-L-000851, ASBESTOS J 327

STUEDEMANN ALBERT V. ADM MILLING CO A WHOLLY OWNED
14-L-000933, ASBESTOS J 327

PYATT MELVA INDIVIDUALLY V. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO INC
13-L-002203, ASBESTOS J 327

STUTTS DEBRA ANN INDIVIDUALLY V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
14-L-000960, ASBESTOS J 327

DUFUR GEORGIA INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER
15-L-000800, ASBESTOS J 327

COLLINS LINDY INDIVIDUALLY V. AW CHESTERTON COMPANY
15-L-000855, ASBESTOS J 327

KRSAK JOHN V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000468, ASBESTOS J 327

BLICK SYLVIA V. 3M COMPANY
16-L-000504, ASBESTOS J 327

SCHLOTFELD RODNEY V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000539, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH MARK V. 3 M COMPANY
16-L-000630, ASBESTOS J 327

MCINTOSH GERALDINE INDIVIDUALL V. AK STEEL CORPORATION
12-L-000161, ASBESTOS J 327

DOLLINGER GERALDINE R INDIVIDU V. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR COMPANY I
12-L-000493, ASBESTOS J 327

SHEELER KENNETH R V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
12-L-000763, ASBESTOS J 327

CUSHMAN MARY H INDIVIDUALLY V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORA
12-L-000916, ASBESTOS J 327

HIGBY DONALD V. A.O. SMITH CORPORATION
12-L-000969, ASBESTOS J 327

BAKER HICE V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
12-L-001075, ASBESTOS J 327

MAYNARD LONNIE V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
12-L-001077, ASBESTOS J 327

LIMB LARRY V. ASBESTOS CORPORATION LTD
13-L-000273, ASBESTOS J 327

CHEATHAM SHERMAN W V. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC
13-L-000442, ASBESTOS J 327

MOLLE PATRICIA V. AKZO NOBEL PAINTS LLC FKA THE
13-L-001126, ASBESTOS J 327

KING JEANETTE INDIVIDUALLY V. WHITTAKER CLARK & DANIELS INC
13-L-001565, ASBESTOS J 327

PYE ANDREW R INDIVIDUALLY V. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
13-L-001810, ASBESTOS J 327

BLAIR SHIRLEY INDIVIDUALLY V. 84 LUMBER COMPANY
14-L-000064, ASBESTOS J 327

MCNULTY LAURA AS ADMIN OF THE V. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO INC
14-L-000287, ASBESTOS J 327

GUALANDI JOHN V. AGCO CORP DBA AGCO FARM EQUIPM
14-L-000412, ASBESTOS J 327

FOTH CURT V. A O SMITH CORPORATION
14-L-000488, ASBESTOS J 327

NICKLES MARK INDIVIDUALLY V. CERTAIN TEED CORPORATION
14-L-001645, ASBESTOS J 327

SMITH BARBARA J INDIVIDUALLY V. AIR AND LIQUID SYSTEMS CORP
14-L-001649, ASBESTOS J 327

SCRUGGS GARCIE M V. AMETEK INC INDIVIDUALLY AND AS
15-L-001056, ASBESTOS J 327

HIX SAMMY V. A O SMITH CORPORATION
15-L-001214, ASBESTOS J 327

RENN FLORENCE E V. 3M COMPANY FKA MINNESOTA MININ
15-L-001276, ASBESTOS J 327

KOCHE JAMES M V. AO SMITH CORPORATION
15-L-001281, ASBESTOS J 327

SUSEK LARRY V. BORGWARNER MORSE TEC LLC AS SU
15-L-001410, ASBESTOS J 327

LONG CATHY V. CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY INC
15-L-001494, ASBESTOS J 327

FLEMING JOHN V. ALLIED INSULATION SUPPLY CO IN
15-L-001521, ASBESTOS J 327

HARDKE LYNN M INDIVIDUALLY V. 3M COMPANY FKA MINNESOTA MININ
15-L-001554, ASBESTOS J 327

FRANZ JOSEF V. BORGWARNER MORSE TEC LLC AS SU
15-L-001555, ASBESTOS J 327

GOMEZ MIGUEL R V. CERTAIN-TEED CORPORATION
16-L-000008, ASBESTOS J 327

ANGEL SANDRA V. ABP INDUCTION LLC SUCCESSOR IN
16-L-000047, ASBESTOS J 327

NIDIFFER DEBBIE INDIVIDUALLY V. A W CHESTERTON COMPANY
16-L-000135, ASBESTOS J 327

Tuesday, August 2

9 a.m.

JERMAN CLIFFORD V. WOOLSEY OPERATING CO LLC A FOR
16-L-000113, MUDGE 302

Friday, August 5

9 a.m.

DAVIS JACK D V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
15-L-001200, ASBESTOS J 327

MAYBERRY ROBERT V. HECK ARTHUR
15-L-000893, CROWDER 320

TURNER STEVEN A V. GLOBAL BRASS AND COPPER HOLDIN
15-L-001347, CROWDER 320

RILEY PEGGY L V. CRAWFORD KRISTEN D
14-L-001536, CROWDER 320

HILL CARYN V. USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPAN
13-L-001011, CROWDER 320

GLEASON ZACHARY ALLAN AS ADM O V. VAN LENHARDT INC DBA MACS
15-L-000820, CROWDER 320

SPARKS DENISE R V. SMITH GREGORY
16-L-000234, CROWDER 320

WILSON MICHAEL V. ALDI INC A CORPORATION
16-L-000246, CROWDER 320

FORD GLORIA M V. MORRISSEY AMANDA R
15-L-000162, CROWDER 320

PILLOW BRIAN W V. GOESTENKORS WILLIAM J
16-L-000380, CROWDER 320

MORRIS VICKY L V. ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY DBA AME
16-L-000744, CROWDER 320

CARRINGTON KIMBERLY SPEC ADM O V. ROWE DAVID E
15-L-000551, CROWDER 320

HAWKINS DEBORAH A V. MOORE MARSHA RN
13-L-001363, CROWDER 320

PORTERA DEBORAH G V. WILDS MARILYN
15-L-001125, CROWDER 320

GRANT NICOLE AS SPECIAL ADMINI V. JOHNSON & JOHNSON
16-L-000736, CROWDER 320

TERRY CLAUDIA AS ADM OF THE ES V. SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS HEALTH
09-L-000166, CROWDER 320

WOODWORTH JUSTIN V. WILLIAMS ANDREW
15-L-001264, CROWDER 320

MARTINEZ ALEXIS P V. LOWRY DAVID
15-L-001633, CROWDER 320

CARMACK WANDA L V. CITY OF GRANITE CITY ILLINOIS
14-L-000878, CROWDER 320

SULLIVAN JACOB M V. CARTER KYLE D
16-L-000458, CROWDER 320

Friday, August 5

9 a.m.

ELLIOTT KIMBERLY INDIVIDUALLY V. AERCO INTERNATIONAL INC
14-L-001583, ASBESTOS JU 327

July 18, 2016

WELLS FARGO BANK V. GARY AND JOAN BROWN, $54,599.61, 2905 CIRCLE DR., GRANITE CITY. 16-CH-419

JULY 19, 2016

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE V. HEIRS OF CYNTHIA L. MUEHLHAUSER, $48,083.34, 101 GLEN ST., COLLINSVILLE. 16-CH-421
MIDFIRST BANK V. JASON R. AND JESSICA A. ELLIS, $55,636.01, 2514 STATE ST., GRANITE CITY. 16-CH-422
PHH MORTGAGE V. JENNIFER M. LIGNOUL, $88,510.92, 4221 MARIGOLD DR., GRANITE CITY. 16-CH-423

JULY 20, 2016

DITECH FINANCIAL V. EUGENIA M. AND JAMES H. MITCHELL, $88,870.11 , 1516 GONTERMAN ST., S. ROXANA. 16-CH-424
US BANK V. LARRY ROSE, $77,922.45, 2208 IOWA ST., GRANITE CITY. 16-CH-425
REGIONS BANK V. RITA RUBENSTEIN, $39,126.92, 739 LNICOLN AVE., WOOD RIVER. 16-CH-426
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING V. STACEY AND DOUGLAS AULABAUGH , $40,625.74, 2717 W. DELMAR, GODFREY. 16-CH-427

JULY 21, 2016

REGIONS BANK V. CLARENCE ARNOLD III AND NICOLE BOYER, $56,048.85, 632 E. LORENA AVE., WOOD RIVER. 16-CH-428
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE V. DAVID E. AND THERESA M. SHOOK, $141,124.30, 170 NORWOOD PL., E. ALTON. 16-CH-429

JULY 22, 2016

US BANK V. JENNA B. DIGIROLAMO, KEVIN A. BELL, $58,543.70, 426 SHORT ST., COLLINSVILLE. 16-CH-430
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE V. BRIAN D. AND DENISE M. WILLIS, $256,261.59, 7897 MAPLE GROVE RD. , TROY. 16-CH-431
US BANK V. CHARLES W. AND MARIAN J. FAVIER, $124,876.71, 201 ESQUIRE DR., GRANITE CITY . 16-CH-432

JULY 11, 2016

ALTON

$32,500- 2408 LLOYD ST. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO ADAM AND NICOLE SAGE
$250,000- 77 NORTH FAIRMOUNT DR. - RICHARD ABBOTT TO DANNY JASON TURNER COLE AND DAVID TURNER COLE
$127,400- 3375 SEILER RD. - ESTATE OF JULIUS EDWARD BOERNER TO CLYDE F. AND ROBIN R. HENTZ

BETHALTO

$125,000- 332 S. NEUNABER DR. - AARON AND KARA WIEMBERS TO DEVIN TERRY

COLLINSVILLE

$106,000- 702 VICTORY DR. - CODY D. AND NIKITA G. MILLER TO NORTON INVESTMENT RENTALS
$119,000- 134 KENWOOD LN. - VICKI L. JACKSON TO ZACHARY BRYAN

DORSEY

$312,500- 6010 RENKEN RD. - CHRISTOPHER AND REBECCA RYAN TO EAN AND JENNIFER BEVEL

E. ALTON

$139,900- 137 W. HALLER DR. - DAVID AND MARGARET BARKER TO JOHNNY B. BOOMERSHIRE AND TERI L. MINDER

EDWARDSVILLE

$78,500- 913 HILLSBORO AVE. - DAVID B. CASTEEN TO ETHAN J. BAUGH
$10,000- 206 2ND AVE. - RONALD SAWYER TO TIM JENKINS
$237,500- 2711 CABIN CREEK CT. - TINA M. ITALIANO TO NATHANIEL AND HEATHER MOHR
$186,500- 3 DUNSTON TR. - DAVID AND CASSANDRA SPINDLER TO LISA R. CUNDALL
$205,000- 7006 STONEY CREEK DR. - SANDRA P. SPURBECK TO KAREN HUMPHREY
$450,000- 714 AND 716 CHAPMAN ST. - SKB PROPERTIES TO C.W. BYRON PROPERTIES
$495,000- 714 AND 716 CHAPMAN ST. - C.W. BYRON PROPERTIES TO GREENLEAF PROPERTY GROUP
$275,000- 3006 INDIAN MEADOWS LN. - SHIRLEY J. BATSON TO PAUL AND CHERYL SCHERMESSER

GLEN CARBON

$188,000- 140 CEDAR LN. - JOHN COLEMAN TO BETH A. SHUSTRIN
$240,000- 223 ASHFORD DR. - JAMES C. AND NICOLE C. HOLLWAY TO CODY AND NIKITA MILLER
$190,000- 30 CRESTWOOD DR. - DANIEL L. SIDO TO DENNIS F. AND CHRISTINE A. PRANGER
$247,000- 3139 ALEXANDRIA DR. - MICHAEL D. JR. AND RACHEL C. YORK TO ROBIN C. WHEAT
$332,000- 117 MERIDIAN OAKS DR. - LERCH HOMES TO TAMMY TULACRO
$320,000- 19 KINGSLEY WAY - WILLIAM T. AND MADELEINE M. HUNTER TO MICHAEL AND LARA CHIAURRO

GRANITE CITY

$105,000- 3706 JOYCE ST. - JESSICA AND DWAYNE HUNT TO JOHNNY RANDOLPH
$19,500- 2555 EDISON AVE. - BLUESTEM PROPERTIES TO KEITH R. AND MELODY K. WALL

HIGHLAND

$91,350- 12604 POCAHONTAS RD. - CHARLES E. HUFFMAN TO TRAIG J. HENSON

MARYVILLE

$169,000- 2086 BRIARBEND CT. - REMINGTON PLACE TO ROBERT P. AND MARGARET M. BOHNENSTIEHL
$300,000- 141 STONEBRIDGE BLUFF DR. - OSBORN HOMES TO LAURIE ELLEN MANWARING JATCKO
$75,000- 124 STONEBRIDGE ESTATES CT. - DONALD P. AND JOSEPH E. OSBORN TO JEFFREY SKELTON

TRENTON

$285,000- 6 PRIMROSE LN. - RYAN J. AND PENNY HEINS CUNNINGHAM TO JEREMIAH D. AND AUDRA D. MYERS

TROY

$176,500- 720 SUNDANCE TR. - SAMUEL L. DRAKE AND KIMBERLY K. DRAKE TO LARRY AND SARA ULRICH
$178,000- 8607 STATE ROUTE 162 - RICHARD AND PATRICIA NICOLET TO GARY AND JUDY CHAMBLESS

WOOD RIVER

$66,500- 146 HICKORY ST. - LUCAS S. ANGELO TO STEVEN R. ANGELO
$50,000- 78 ERKHARD AVE. - MICHAEL G. AND RIKKI J. KOLB TO ALLEN T. AND TARYN E. PATE

JULY 12, 2016

ALTON

$42,000- 100 LAKE DR. - JEFFREY AND KIM MAYNARD TO MIGHTY RIVER LAND CO.
$72,000- 1004 E. 4TH ST. - DANIEL C. AND KAREN L. KRANKEL TO JESSE M. CHAVOURS
$12,500- 2725 GRANDVIEW AVE. - THE JUDICIAL SALES CORP. TO JCS ACQUISITIONS AND HOMEFRONT PROPERTIES

BETHALTO

$27,000- 38 WOODCREST DR. - BETHCOR INC TO ROBERT J. LISH III AND MALLORY A. DUGGER

BRIGHTON

$172,900- 5948 SEMINARY RD. - WAYNE AND LINDA WATSON TO STEVEN AND KYLE MARIE MIESK

COLLINSVILLE

$340,000- 515 BELT LINE RD. - MBW PROPERTIES TO MECU COLLISVILLE
$35,102- 537 MARY AVE. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO ROBIN AND VICKIE MUELLER
$320,000- 198 CAMELOT DR. - DIANE E. BOROWY TO CAMELOT COMMONS
$116,500- 8 WAGON WHEEL CT. - SHIRLEY PARKER TO CHRISTINA ANGLIN

E. ALTON

$134,000- 217 RIVERWOODS COVE - LAWRENCE AND VIOLA BAUGHMAN TRUST TO BRIAN AND CATHY J. BERRY
$96,500- 509 MONROE ST. - JOHN P. MILLER TO STEVEN WEATHERFORD

GLEN CARBON

$100,000- 12 CRABAPPLE LN. - IRVIN BOWLES, LINDA MCREAKEN, MELISSA WINKLE TO MSO
$141,500- 7 GINGER LAKE DR. WEST - CAROL B. SHARRARD TO JO ELLEN MOORE AND RICHARD F. SHARRARD
$168,000- 50 RED BUD LN. - JOSEPH W. DECKER TO DONNELL DUNCAN

GODFREY

$45,000- 5009 CAVALIER CT. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO DUSTIN J. SNYDERS
$292,000- 4904 PEAR TREE LN. - CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL KANE AND RITA NICOLE KANE TO WILLIAM N. BOWEN

GRANITE CITY

$84,000- 3129 ASH AVE. - STEPHEN E. AND JOHN G. AVEDISIAN TO JESSICA HARMAN
$152,000- 4713 DANIELLE CT. - BRETT ALLEN BARNES AND JULIE A. BARNES TO JEFFREY F. BILYEU
$39,900- 300 WILSON PARK LN. - LOWERS OPPORTUNITY 1 TO GINNY SCHUMAN
$19,575- 2801 WARREN - SECRETARY OF HUD TO RAINBOW GUARDIANS TRUST
$82,000- 2111 CLARK AVE. - MARY KAY DENNING TO WBN PROPERTIES
$95,000- 2137 STATE ST. - DONALD E. AND HEATHER N. TADLOCK TO LISA SPEARS
$50,430- 2116 E. 24TH ST. - JUDICIAL SALES CORP. TO SECRETARY OF VA
$80,000- 1637 LINDELL BLVD. - TERRY ARTHUR SUHRE TO JAHN S. HALLDEN

HARTFORD

$22,000- 122 E. 1ST ST. - PERRY D. AND SHELIA K. THOMAS TO ADAM S. AND SUZANNE COLLMAN

MARYVILLE

$165,000- 908 ANDRA DR. - PAMELA FRENCH TO MACY RUSSELL
$285,000- 8 FOREST DR. - DAVID M. AND DEBORAH A. KOKOTOVICH TO CECIL H. JR. AND NAOMI RUTH DOWNING

ROXANA

$58,200- 218 RELLER ST. - KNK QUALITY HOMES TO LAURIE AND MARK ST. PETERS

S. ROXANA

$27,000- 1602 PARK ST. - TONY AND CANDY WYMAN TO KURT AND MARY OBERLANDER
$5,500- 112 POAG AVE. - NICOLE GREATHOUSE AND DAVID COAD TO COMMON CENTS HOMES

ST. JACOB

$500,000- 9935,9941,9953 AND 9965 IL STATE ROUTE - LUCKY JACKS IL TO CURT HOPPES

WOOD RIVER

$100,000- 526 SHORT ST. - HEIRS OF SALVADOR MILITELLO TO LABURN A. AND DIANE R. CATLETT
$30,400- 902 E. ACTON - SECRETARY OF HUD TO TILLER HOMES
$42,000- 523 GROVE AVE. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO TANIJUAN T. HENRY

JULY 13, 2016

ALTON

$45,718- 1422 SEILER RD. - THE JUDICIAL SALES CORP. TO JCS ACQUISITIONS AND HOMEFRONT PROPERTIES
$123,750- 4817 CINDERELLA DR. - MARK A. WEISS TO BOBBY AND CHRISTIE RICKMAN

E. ALTON

$18,000- 225 OHIO ST. - BANK OF EDWARDSVILLE TO LESLIE R. MCMILLEN
$215,000- 280 S. 9TH ST. - JONI K. HOGAN TO KYLE HOGAN

EDWARDSVILLE

$182,000- 1078 BARBADOS DR. - SHELDON J. AND HEATHER J. FETTIG TO CARTUS FINANCIAL CORP.
$182,000- 1078 BARBADOS DR. - CARTUS FINANCIAL CORP. TO TAYLOR AND KENNETH KNIGHT

GRANITE CITY

$67,000- 2639 LOGAN ST. - BRANDON MICHAEL SHELLENBERG TO RICHARD W. WHITE

HIGHLAND

$192,000- 55 S. PORTE DR. - NICHOLAS C. AND LORI J. LADWIG TO ERIC S. AND ANGELIA L. SULLIVAN
$118,000- 30 CREST DR. - JUDITH A. BRAUNS TRUST TO BRETT A. AND MEGAN D. BURRIS
$36,000- 10 KAY DR. - WILFRED HOLZINGER RICK AMMANN TO BRET EILERMAN
$24,000- ROSEWOOD LN. - SHERRY L. ALEXANDER TO BROOKE M. AND DUSTIN J. WILSON

ST. JACOB

$240,000- 93 SUMMERFIELD RD. - DORIS VENABLE BEAR TRUST TO ROBERT AND TINA KUNZ

JULY 14, 2016

ALTON

$51,400- 2220 ALBY ST. - JOSHUA AND JACQUELYN MCCARTY TO LEE W. BARRON
$45,000- 2801 SANFORD AVE. - GREGORY A. AND LAURA J. BOCK TO BRITTON AND TRICIA CLAYTON
$175,000- 4539 ALBY ST. - MKE PROPERTIES TO MARK AND BETH ZUMWALT

BETHALTO

$13,000- WOODCREST DR. - BETHCOR INC TO SHANNON B. AND KAREN L. SCHEFFEL
$13,000- WOODCREST DR. - BETHCOR INC TO RANDALL D. AND DONNA J. KARPAN
$246,248- 276 BETHALTO - CA JONES TO BRIAN A. AND JESSICA K. EARDLEY

COLLINSVILLE

$95,000- 319 BISSELL ST. | 6712 AND 6713 CLAY - HOME FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN TO BKM PROPERTIES
$279,500- 103 TIMBERWOOD LN. - JOHN C. DUCHATSCHEK AND JILL DUCHATSCHEK TO MARK V. AND KATHERINE M. ROBINSON
$83,971- 214 CENTRAL AVE. - JUDICIAL SALES CORP. TO SECRETARY OF HUD

COTTAGE HILLS

$55,000- 70 CIRCLE DR. - PAULA SETTLE MADDEN AND PATRICK SETTLE MADDEN TO JENNA R. LAYTON AND AUSTIN J. HARTMANN

E. ALTON

$78,000- 204 W. HALLER DR. - MARY K. HAMEL TO MICHAEL SCOTT D. AND ERINN A. COPE
$170,000- 223 N. BELLWOOD DR. - JOYCE BRADSHAW TO TRUST ENTERPRISES

EDWARDSVILLE

$255,000- 104 COUNTRY CLUB VIEW - MICHAEL MULLEN, BRIAN MULLEN, SCOTT MULLEN TO DAVID H. AND DIANE SCHWIND
$173,000- 589 WESTVIEW DR. - KETTEN CONTRACTING TO LUKE MAKLER AND MICHELLE MCBRIDE
$180,123- 1129 NASSAU DR. - JACQUELYN R. BUSH TO SAMUEL L. AND KEELY J. BICKEL
$375,000- 476 POINT OF VIEW - CRAIG KEETON TO NATIONAL RESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SERVICES
$375,000- 476 POINT OF VIEW - NATIONAL RESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SERVICES TO RYAN J. BROWN
$165,000- 1208 GRANT DR. - BRAD AND BRITNEY MUSHILL TO MARC E. AND PEGGY A. MITCHELL

GLEN CARBON

$90,000- 96 OAKLAWN DR. - GATEWAY FAMILY CHURCH TO DENISE M. LUTES
$210,000- 316 WESTGLEN DR. - RICHARD R. AND KATHLEEN M. YARBER TO TIMOTHY R. PLEMMONS
$35,000- 146 MAIN ST. - GLEN CARBON BAPTIST CHURCH TO WILLIAM AND SARAH NETTLES
$475,000- MAGNOLIA COMMONS DR. - SAR JESTER ENTERPRISES TO SACRED HEART HOLDINGS

GRANITE CITY

$157,500- 285 BRUNS RD. - CHARLES R. AND RHONDA A. MAYFIELD TO MIDWEST AIRWING CLUB
$29,559- 47 IRIS AVE. - US BANK TO HOMEINVESTORS

HIGHLAND

$80,000- 604 OLIVE ST. - GREGORY, GERALDINE, MICHAEL WESSEL TO ANTHONY M. ELLIOTT
$16,000- 2734 BROADWAY - VIRGIL H. SCHRAGE TO KEITH A. AND PATRICIA L. HORN
$180,000- 10 SUNBEAM DR. - MICHAEL AND DIANA M. COMPTON TO MARK AND TERESA FOCHT
$235,500- 2484 MOTEL RD. - RANDY G. AND MICHELE PHILLIPS TO MATTHEW R. AND CARRIE A. EMBRY
$200,000- 12919 MAPLE ST. - DANNY L. CHRISTINA L. SEITZ TO CHRISTOPHER W. JASCUR AND SARAH HORTON
$132,000- 1709 PARKVIEW DR. - BRAD AND JULIE JAKEL TO BILLIE JOE TIPPIT JR.
$95,000- 1308 13TH ST. - CORY LAKE TO CAROL FEHRMANN
$57,500- 220 SUPPIGER LN. UNIT 115 - BILLIE D. SINGLETON TO CAROLYN S. ROBINSON
$110,000- 603 8TH ST. - WILFRED AND JEAN HOLZINGER TO MAX P. BOWMAN JR.

S. ROXANA

$65,000- 201 WASHINGTON ST. - AUSTIN AND MONICA CHAMBERLAIN TO AMBER WELLER

TROY

$195,000- 1540 FAIROAKS DR. - CHRISTOPHER DREMANN TO MATTHEW R. SINNOKRAK
$227,500- 125 FAIRINGTON DR. - BRETT AND ERIN W. MILLER TO STACEY OBRIEN
$162,000- 968 LONGBRANCH RD. - GARY L. AND MARY F. COLOMBARA TO JESSICA R. AND LEVI M. WILLIAMS
$69,000- 203 E. CENTER ST. - THE SECRETARY OF HUD TO CRISTAL L. FRIEDRICH

WOOD RIVER

$20,000- 3407 CRESCENT CT. - FIRST CLOVER LEAF BANK TO FULFORD HOMES
$209,550- 3407 CRESCENT CT. - FULFORD HOMES TO JERRY AND PAMELA MERCER

JULY 1, 2016

BELLEVILLE

$89,900- 815 E. MCKINLEY - JEAN M. BOSWORTH TO LARRY D. AND JENNIFER L. MILLER
$262,500- 533 GARDEN BLVD. - MARK A. AND JACKQUELIN HOPPENJANS TO CHRISTOPHER E. AND JULIE SMITH
$188,000- 2414 CYPRESS KNOLL CT. - MARK C. AND AMY J. LESLIE TO ROBERT M. WAGNER AND CINDY M. MEDINA
$99,900- 1609 BERKLEY LN. - BRIAN S. KECK TO GREGORY G. DALTON
$375,000- 1816 TENTH FAIRWAY DR. - ERIC AND JENNIFER MEINKOTH TO BRANDI L. JEWELL
$77,000- 222 E. MCKINLEY ST. - FIRST COUNTY BANK TO SCOTT VON BOKEL
$213,000- 931 STONE CREEK LN. - THOMAS A. AND SHEARY R. MEYER TO JUAN AND PAULA VAZQUEZ
$98,750- 2505 RICHLAND PRAIRIE BLVD. - SECRETARY OF VA TO SEAN AARON DALE GREEN
$215,000- 2725 AUTUMN HARVEST LN. - MARY YOLANDA ELLISON TO LASAAD D. AND BONNIE KING
$126,500- 35 ORCHARD DR. - CHARLES AND TAMARA GUSLANDER TO ROBERT AND CHRISTINE COLE
$36,300- 101 S. 8TH ST. - ROBERT E. HALVACHS TO DAWN R. TIBBETTS
$145,000- 60 OAK POINTE CR. - SOUTH SEAS SUNSET TO GLENDA K. BROWN
$38,000- 2702 LONDON LN. - TTW TO CNR
$170,000- 20 LINDENLEAF LN. - ANTHONY M. AND JILL M. SCHAEFER TO DEBRA BIEKERT
$102,000- 1525 EILER RD. - ROBERT L. AND STACEY L. WALLACE TO FRANK SCHRANZ
$200,000- 3021 BLACKWOOD DR. - RALPH A. AND JULIE A. LOUNSBROUGH TO ERNEST J. AND MANDY M. MAYER
$43,144- 613 S. DOUGLAS AVE. - DEUTSCHE BANK TO JOAN F. SWANSON

COLLINSVILLE

$93,000- 703 CARL ST. - THE BANK OF EDWARDSVILLE TO GILBERTO HERNANDEZ

E. ST. LOUIS

$10,924- 29 HILLTOP PL. - WELLS FARGO BANK TO ANITA GRIFFIN

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS

$209,000- 806 SAYBROOK FALLS DR. - ROBIN RHODES TO CHRISTINE AND TIMOTHY JOHNSON

FREEBURG

$23,000- 211 S. WALNUT ST. - HOSEY FAMILY TRUST TO CORBY VALENTINE

MASCOUTAH

$239,000- 1122 PIPER LN. - MICHAEL R. GORDON TO TRACY WATKINS
$220,000- 1130 QUAIL POINT - ROBERT V. AND TINA M. WOODBURY TO MARK C. AND AMY J. LESLIE

OFALLON

$192,000- 1033 EDGEWOOD DR. - BRETT AND IMELDA BECKLER TO WILLIAM ROBERT AND RITA L. SHERIDAN
$224,000- 1321 HAPS LN. - JAMES L. AND D'ANN M. WARNKE TO KARLEE HIATT
$200,000- 1323 THREE RIVERS DR. UNIT 31A - DANIEL WRIGLEY TRUST TO RAYMOND AND LYNDA PORTINGA TRUST
$237,116- 423 BANDMOUR PL. - BARNES PROPERTIES TO EARLENE E. ECKERT
$224,500- 1221 SEWARD DR. - IVAN AND SHANNON HURTADO TO KEVIN AND KELLY ALBERS
$20,499- 1005 W. NIXON DR. - THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TO DANIEL ASBERRY

SHILOH

$255,000- 3529 CAPRI LN. - MICHAEL AND BESSIE ANDERSON TO AINO AND MIRANDA MOORE

ST. LIBORY

$145,000- 1051 SPARTA CT. - CRAIG E. AND CAROL D. BRAZELTON TO JONATHAN SANDHEINRICH

SWANSEA

$142,500- 505 HOMESTEAD AVE. - ALICE MCPHERSON ESTATE TO BRANDON AND ELIZABETH TURNER
$244,000- 10 HUNTERS POINT - KENNETH C. SORG AND LORI ANDERSON TO KIMBERLY HOPE AND DALE LEE LANDIS II
$191,900- 3916 BEECHMONT CR. - FULFORD HOMES TO CORWIN C. AND SHANNON E. MILLER
$120,000- 1830 N. 15TH ST. - KELVIN SIMMONS II TO ALANA L. JONES

JULY 5, 2016

BELLEVILLE

$300,000- 1 S. BELT EAST - BUCK'S INC. TO NK GROUP
$182,955- 2011 WOODSONG WAY - FULFORD HOMES TO MATTHIAS AND LYNN IMGRUND
$89,000- 905 KERNON DR. - MARILYN LAUF TO BARBARA REDDEN
$92,000- 18 ELIZABETH DR. - DIANE S. KRAEMER TO DARQUESHIA YOUNG
$96,000- 300 S. 17TH ST. - CASSEL CONSTRUCTION TO BILLY CASTROGIOVANNI
$450,000- 12 ROCKY FORD RD. - WILLIAM C. ACKERMANN TO BETTY BOLLMEIER
$116,000- 312 AARON DR. - RYAN BRAUER TO LINDSEY MERCER
$310,000- 3113 REDROCK CT. - CMI CONSTRUCTION TO LEE AND JEANNE HARTMAN
$227,900- 3233 HUNTERS WAY - LISA M. LOADER TO KELSEY AND QUINN CARLI
$115,000- 2208 ELLINGTON DR. - BRENDA L. AND JOYCE ANN STREET TO A&E MIDWEST INVESTMENTS INC.
$40,280- 136 S. 34TH ST. - HELEN IRENE STRECK TO RODERICK A. AND GLORIA JEAN SMITH

CAHOKIA
$38,750- 221 W. SECOND ST. - GATEWAY NORTH REDEVELOPMENT GROUP TO DANIEL J. AND LAURA A. CERNICH
$22,500- 102 ELM ST. - GATEWAY NORTH REDEVELOPMENT GROUP TO DANIEL J. AND LAURA A. CERNICH

CASEYVILLE

$315,000- 186 FOREST OAKS DR. - DEAN A. AND NANCY HUARD TO MICHAEL F. PHELPS AND RACHELLE P. JOHNSON

FAIRMONT CITY

$100- 2518 N. 42ND ST. - ROBERTO ROJAS TO VINCENZA VIOLA GROVES

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS

$104,000- 5 LAKESHIRE DR. - JAMES AND LINDA GILLILAND TO JUMAH A. FENNOY
$182,000- 7353 TIMBERPOINT CT. - KAREN K. ZAWASKY TO CHARLES E. AND LINDA K. MARTIN

LEBANON

$131,000- 1024 LANTERN LN. - JUSTIN L. AND JOSIE L. BLASDEL TO JAMES AND ALICIA BESS
$97,500- 10920 KENTFIELD DR. - CATHERINE BENNETT TO DONALD J. PETERSON SR. AND CHRISTINE DANIELS
$126,900- 46 HARMON DR. - MARY L. SMITH TO TIMOTHY AND SARAH HESS

MASCOUTAH

$130,000- 1507 LINCOLN BLVD. - DANIEL C. HIEMER TO SCOTT A. AND JAMIE A. BURCH
$170,000- 5255 STATE ROUTE 4 - MICHAEL L. AND LUCINDA M. METHENY TO OWEN MICHAEL AND SHERAH RENEE BRICKELL
$282,500- 9715 WINCHESTER ST. - GEORGE E. BERRY AND ANGELA A. BAILEY TO NICOLE BAILEY
$265,000- 1887 NATHAN AVE. - ROBERT NELSON AND KATHLEEN NELSON TO MICHAEL J. AND KIMBERLY A. LAJOYE

MILLSTADT

$306,500- 6709 AUGIES WAY PL. - CMI CONSTRUCTION TO LINDA L. MENTZER TRUST

OFALLON

$194,000- 816 PACIFIC CROSSING - TROY REAL ESTATE TO RAMONA BROWN
$229,000- 833 BASSET ST. - KEVIN AND WENDY BAKA TO PATRICK M. AND JENNIFER R. SCHWONMEYER
$64,000- 400 WILLOW POINT TR. - RESERVES OF TIMBER RIDGE TO HUNTINGTON CHASE HOMES CORP.
$65,000- 403 WILLOW POINT TR. - RESERVES OF TIMBER RIDGE TO HUNTINGTON CHASE HOMES CORP.
$255,000- 1410 GAMBIER TERRACE CT. - SUE RICHARDSON FAMILY TRUST TO MICHELLE WILKE
$191,900- 361 VERMILLION DR. - LARRY AND DEBORAH TUPMAN TO DANIEL AND ALICE COULTER
$317,500- 753 MERRIFIELDS DR. - FRED AND TIFFANY WYNNS TO JNANA AND CRAIG COFFEY
$42,000- 281 EAGLE RIDGE - MICHAEL AND JILL JOSIAS TO PHB CAPTIAL
$305,000- 916 PRAIRIE CROSSING - MICHAEL B. AND G. LYNETTE SCOTT TO JOSHUA J. AND REBECCA K. WOHLTMAN
$300,260- 1078 RICHLAND PARK DR. #17C - STONE BRIDGE VILLAS TO ROBERT AND HELEN BURROUS

SHILOH

$82,500- 809 PLANKWAY DR. - ASHLEY L. GILLIAM TO STEPHEN AND SYLVIA WILLIAMS

SWANSEA

$215,000- 17 PARK PLACE - REGIONS BANK TO REGIONS BANK

JULY 6, 2016

BELLEVILLE

$67,200- 400 ST. JOHN DR. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO JUSTIN WRIGHT LAVADOUR
$208,000- 2621 CEDAR GROVE DR. - JENNIFER JEAN WINTERS AND JOHNATHAN ANDREW HENDERSON TO TONY AND NIKITTA OAKLEY

CASEYVILLE

$50,000- 321 BETHEL MEADOWS RD. - SECRETARY OF HUD TO JOSE R. OCHOA

E. ST. LOUIS

$11,200- 7112 CHURCH LN. - US BANK TO BEVERLY FISHER

FREEBURG

$325,000- 5315 GOSLING LN. - LORREN J. BECK TO DAVID B. AND DIONNE R. GERFEN

MASCOUTAH

$109,900- 18 E. STATE ST. - JORDAN HIGGASON TO WILLIAM AND DONNA BOYER

OFALLON

$194,000- 300 PONDEROSA - JASON BOONE TO NANCY AND ANNETTE FLEMING

SHILOH

$112,500- 1691 CROSS ST. - KELLY M. HUNT TO CHRIS STROOT
$255,000- 2709 AMBRIDGE DR. - FULFORD HOMES TO MICHAEL AND BESSIE ANDERSON
$15,000- 2304 FRANK SCOTT E. PARKWAY - VILLAGE OF SHILOH TO IAWC

SMITHTON

$253,276- 5535 WILLOW CROSSING ST. - JLP HOMES TO DOUG AND LAUREN PATTERSON

JULY 7, 2016

BELLEVILLE

$192,264- 2070 WOODSONG WAY LN. - FULFORD HOMES TO MICHAEL C. MINEMAN

E. ST. LOUIS

$47,500- 2740 N. 40TH ST. - DAVID AND LINDA SUAREZ TO BETTY WHIT-SHAUN HOU AND MICHALE ABRAHAM ALEMAN
$22,347- 5606 WESTMORELAND - HARBOUR PORTFOLIO VII TO SG CAPITAL PARTNERS
$19,731- 1323 RICHARD DR. - HARBOUR PORTFOLIO VII TO SG CAPITAL PARTNERS

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS

$145,000- 5105 N. ILLINOIS - CHARLES W. AND DONNA M. SYMPSON TO COKA INC.
$42,300- 309 KEARTON DR. - FIRST TENNESSEE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO DANIEL ASBERRY

FREEBURG

$375,000- 504 SHADOW WOOD CT. - DAVID B. AND DIONNE R. GERFEN TO WESLEY J. COULSON

LEBANON

$70,000- 111 E. WESLEY ST. - CATHY SCHULTE, MINDY SHIRLEY, BARBARA VRELL TO BRUNTON PROPERTIES

OFALLON

$83,500- 103 VIRGINIA AVE. - DCMTB PROPERTIES TO METRO INFLATABLES

JULY 8, 2016

BELLEVILLE

$257,500- 45 PEBBLE HILL DR. - DAIVD AND RUTH KLINGEL TO SAMANTHA MCCRACKEN
$130,000- 2617 BELLE MAR DR. - BARBARA J, HARSZY TO COLIN R. NEIGHBORS
$74,000- 1425 WABASH - SANDY R. DAVIS TO MATTHEW RYAN COOPER
$181,500- 2915 HARVEST MEADOW DR. - TODD AND ERICA MCNEAL TO BONNIE SCALES
$114,000- 16 LENEL DR. - EDWIN AND DEBORAH GODARD TO MICHAEL AND ALICIA BATES
$90,000- 14 MANAS DR. - TRACY A. WESTER TO DERICK AND RACHEL ZACHER
$84,000- 200 SHEFFIELD DR. - TIMOTHY S. AND ANN M. SMYTHE TO LUNETHA ROBINSON
$23,500- 8 LINDAUER PL. - NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE TO JA-JA PROPERTIES
$134,500- 233 BLANC LEE DR. - ASHOK P. AND MEERA A. MAHTANI TO ANTWANE D. TAYLOR
$10,000- 1316 SCHILLING AVE. - JON JOSEPH WORMS TO GUY KRAUS

CAHOKIA

$11,000- 704 E. 5TH ST. - ROBERT E. PAYNE TO ST. LOUIS INVESTMENTS

CASEYVILLE

$115,000- 410 W. LINCOLN - ESTATE OF BARBARA J. KILLION TO KEVIN VO AND TAN HUYNH

COLLINSVILLE

$7,000- 502, 504 CLARENCE ST. - ALEJANDRO HUITRON TO CRISTOBAL MAURICIO

DUPO

$72,000- 1400 COLUMBIA RD. - RUSSELL WALSTER TO ROXANNE STITT

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS

$92,000- 716 HARBOR WOODS DR. - JAMES C. AND SARAH SMITH TO MONICA LYNN SEWELL
$153,000- 815 FOXGROVE DR. - PAIGE AND ERIC GREGORY TO VERONICA YOUNGER
$114,900- 413 ANITA DR. - DONALD L. SCHMIDT JR., LISA E. SCHMIDT, AND DONALD L. SCHMIDT SR. TO JESSICA CARRIER
$239,000- 37 FAIRVIEW DR. - LARRY R. AND PAMELA L. MCPHAIL TO CASSIDY L. AND ANASTACIA I. WILSON

FREEBURG

$58,500- 8230 PEABODY RD. - ANTHONY JOYNT AND YOLANDA MULLENIX TO ANDRE AND DAWN VAN KLAVEREN
$55,000- 3456 ARBOR VIEW CT. - ARBOR VIEW ACRES TO DANIEL AND BROOKE KLOESS
$55,000- 3450 ARBOR VIEW CT. - ARBOR VIEW ACRES TO JEFFREY AND SUANN TOENJES

LENZBURG

$22,000- 21 N. CHARLES - DAWN WILEY TO EVELYN BROWN

MASCOUTAH

$120,000- 100 E. OAK ST. - CHARLES R. AND LAURA BLANCHARD TO JUSTIN EMIG
$245,000- 9621 WINCHESTER - BRIAN N. AND DEBORAH POPE TO CHARLES R. AND LAURA I. BLANCHARD

MILLSTADT

$70,000- 211 W. LAUREL ST. - EARNEST A. SKAER TO KRISTA VOIGHT AND SHAWN KEBEL
$215,000- 204 HARVEST ST. - RONALD E. AND CHERYL S. HOOD TO GIAMBATTISTA AND CHRISTINE MARIE PATTI

OFALLON

$246,000- 1405 WINCHESTER GROVE CT. - KAPPERT CONSTRUCTION CO. TO JEAN GOODLOE
$300,000- 936 GLEN HOLLOW DR. - JAMES M. OMALLEY TO PATRICK R. FEENEY
$100,750- 612 LINDEN CT. - LORRAINE RAMIREZ TO JIMEL ENTERPRISES
$169,900- 209 CHAMBERLAINS CROSSING - LELAND AND TAFFANINA WARREN TO BENJAMIN P. CALLAHAN
$61,000- 120 COTTAGE HILL DR. - DEREK L. AND LYNNETTE R. WISE TO CHRISTOPHER J. AND ROBERT L. SIMPSON II
$282,000- 113 SUMMERLIN RIDGE - SUSAN K. HOELSCHER TO BRETT G. AND DEBBIE A. BOWLBY

SWANSEA

$207,000- 2804 CREEKSIDE PL. - ELIZABETH WINCHESTER TO JAMES AND LAURA ALLENDER

MOUNT VERNON – Miranda warnings and alcohol don’t mix, according to Fifth District appellate judges. 

On July 20, they affirmed a Shelby County court order suppressing statements that suspect Tonya Day made after signing away her right to remain silent. 

She had hit .184 on a preliminary breath test, more than double the legal limit, and she had failed three field sobriety tests. 

Justice Judy Cates wrote, “Intoxication by itself does not render a waiver of Miranda rights involuntary.” 

“Rather, the evidence must plainly show that the defendant was so grossly intoxicated that she no longer had the capacity to knowingly waive her rights,” Cates wrote.

She further wrote that, “where a suspect is so grossly intoxicated to the point where she no longer has the capacity to waive her rights, any statements made while in that condition will be suppressed.” 

Justices Richard Goldenhersh and Melissa Chapman concurred. 

Shelby County sheriff’s deputies Jacob Washburn and Brian Litteral arrested Day on May 5, 2013, after stopping a pickup truck. 

They charged her with driving under the influence of alcohol. 

Litteral drove her to the county detention center and asked for a breath sample. 

She refused to give it. 

He recited her Miranda rights, and she signed a waiver of them. 

His report on Day’s arrest indicated that her ability to understand instructions was poor during the field tests and in the detention center. 

She moved to suppress her statements. 

At a hearing before circuit judge James Roberts, she denied driving the pickup. 

She testified that the driver got out and ran, and witnesses backed her up. 

Washburn testified that he didn’t see anyone get out, and Litteral testified that Day identified herself as the driver. 

Last year, Roberts ruled that he would suppress statements Day made after failing the field tests but would allow statements she made prior to that. 

He concluded he didn’t have enough information to find that she knowingly and intelligently understood her rights. 

An appeal didn’t change the result. 

Cates wrote that evidence plainly showed that Roberts was not in error when he determined that Day was grossly intoxicated. 

Levi Harris of the appellate defender’s office represented Day. 

Sharon Shanahan of the appellate prosecutor’s office represented the state.

BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle certified a class action on a claim that makers of eye drops for glaucoma patients design their droppers to waste fluid. 

On July 25, she ruled that four plaintiffs could represent Illinois and Missouri residents who used eye drops of Allergan, Alcon, Bausch and Lomb, Pfizer, Merck, and Prasco. 

“There are differences between plaintiffs, such as plaintiffs’ ages and varying treatment plans, but the core issue is whether the dispensers release unnecessarily large eye drops,” Yandle wrote. 

“The alleged injury, that the large drops have resulted in wastage of medication, remains the same for all four named plaintiffs and for the putative class as a whole.” 

John Simon of St. Louis and Mark Goldenberg of Edwardsville represent the plaintiffs, along with members of their firms. 

Simon filed the suit in 2012, for Charlene Eike, Shirley Fisher, Jordan Pitler, and Alan Raymond. 

Defendants moved to dismiss the action, and moved for a stay pending a decision on the motion to dismiss. 

Merck counsel Chris Schmidt argued for a stay at a hearing before Magistrate Judge Donald Wilkerson in 2013, on behalf of all defendants. 

“We are dealing with novel claims, claims that we are not aware of any court sanctioning, let alone any consumer bringing anywhere in the country,” Schmidt said. 

“Plaintiffs are seeking to force the defendants, who are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, to change their manufacturing processes. 

“They are seeking damages for that excess waste to the extent they are able to calculate it.” 

He said plaintiffs didn’t plead any actual injury. 

“They have conceded that you can’t overdose the eye,” Schmidt said. 

Wilkerson ruled that neither the novelty of the theories nor the expense of discovery warranted a stay. 

“Defendants argue that hundreds if not thousands of hours of attorney and client time will be devoted to discovery in addition to time that will be spent litigating the scope of discovery,” Wilkerson wrote. 

“None of these points are particularly unique to this case.” 

He wrote that discovery for defendants as a group would be extensive, but there was no showing that the burden on each individual defendant would be onerous. 

District Judge David Herndon denied the motion to dismiss the action in 2014, finding plaintiffs plausibly pleaded actual damages. 

He wrote that they alleged actual damage as measured by the price of the portion of each drop in excess of 15 microliters. 

“At this stage of the litigation, the court finds this sufficient to survive review,” Herndon wrote. 

He wrote that plaintiffs premised their claims on representing classes of consumers who bought similar products from the companies. 

“They need not have used every prescription eye drop manufactured by every defendant,” he wrote. 

Defendants moved for reconsideration or an order allowing interlocutory appeal, but Herndon wouldn’t get a chance to consider the motion. 

The case passed to Yandle when she joined the court, and she denied the motion. 

This February, she set trial for December. 

Goldenberg entered his appearance in March, along with Kevin Green and Thomas Rosenfeld of his firm. 

On July 18, plaintiffs and defendants jointly moved to vacate the December trial date pending a ruling on class certification. 

Yandle delivered her decision a week later. 

As of July 26, she had not acted on the motion to postpone trial. 

A federal judge in New Jersey dismissed a similar class action in March. 

District Judge Freda Wolfson ruled that plaintiffs “failed to show that smaller-tipped bottles would be priced lower based solely on volume,” according to defense attorneys at Shook Hardy and Bacon . 

Wolfson further found that “plaintiffs failed to establish economic harm or entitlement to reimbursement; the bottle design in use was approved by the FDA; and there were no allegations that plaintiffs would have purchased comparable cheaper products, producing smaller drops, in place of the defendants’ products,” according to an article on the firm’s website.      

A special investigation unit designed to crack down on drug trafficking on main thoroughfares in Madison County is on hold while the Illinois Supreme Court reviews the legality of a program that arguably gives state’s attorneys their own police force.

Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons set up the State’s Attorney Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team in late 2014, modeled after a program created in LaSalle County. Of the state's 102 counties, these two are the only ones to establish the program.

The SAFE team, Gibbons determined, would add another layer of protection to the community as it fights drug-related crimes and deaths. But the program barely got off the ground. The LaSalle County State’s Attorney had appealed a series of lawsuits against his office over arrests made by his SAFE unit. He asked the Third District Appellate Court to overturn a trial court’s determination that SAFE special investigators don’t have the authority to arrest people.

In June 2015 — just a month after Gibbons’ team started training and conducting preliminary field exercises — the appellate court ruled against LaSalle County, affirming the lower court’s opinion that the program was out of line.

“The Madison County SAFE Team was created as part of the continued, proactive response to the heroin epidemic in Madison County,” Gibbons told the Record. He hopes the Supreme Court will reverse the Third District’s opinion, so the SAFE team can “get back to the work of protecting our community by taking heroin off the streets before it ever gets into the dealers’ hands.”

Questions of overreach

LaSalle County State’s Attorney Brian Towne formed the first State’s Attorney Felony Enforcement team in late 2011. By his design, the unit, which included officers with drug interdiction experience, would work with other agencies and with canine assistance to intercept drug traffickers on Interstate 80 in the county. Towne authorized this team of special investigators to operate with police authority, including making traffic stops and arresting people — powers that defense attorneys say they shouldn’t have.

Gibbons’ team looked similar. It started with two special investigators who were already working for his office. Two more investigators joined later. They had worked in highway drug interdiction already while employed by other agencies. The team also included a trained drug detection dog named Fleck. A member of the team was also a certified K-9 handler. The team partnered with the Highland Police Department, which would provide dispatching, booking facilities and evidence storage, and could add manpower, Gibbons said.

In January 2012, Towne’s special investigator, Jeff Gaither, stopped Cara Ringland because he noticed the mud flaps on the U-haul van she was driving east from California were not in compliance with regulations. Riding along with him was Peru police officer Jeremiah Brown. The K-9 unit that’s dispatched each time a member of the SAFE team makes a stop found about 100 pounds of marijuana in the U-haul. Ringland was brought up on two felony drug charges. The SAFE team also attempted to seize $3,300 found in the vehicle.

By August of that year, Ringland had filed a motion to void her arrest because she claimed it was conducted by officers working outside their jurisdiction and that she was stopped without probable cause. Similar arrests and motions were filed by several other people who were pulled over, searched and arrested on drug charges by Gaither, a retired Illinois State Police officer, as he worked for a special investigator for Towne’s SAFE unit.

Gaither’s authority as a special investigator to make traffic stops and arrest people was brought into question in court. On one hand, he hadn’t submitted his fingerprints like he was supposed to do when he was hired as a special investigator. But judges at the trial and appellate level took issue on a more fundamental level.

“It is important to note,” the appellate decision states, “that the State’s Attorney has the authority to appoint special investigators to perform only three specific functions: serving subpoenas, making return of process and conducting investigations that ‘assist the State’s Attorney in the performance of his duties.’ The statute is conspicuously devoid of any other functions a special investigator may undertake.”

Meaning, nowhere in there does it say special investigators can make traffic stops, defense attorneys argued. Towne disagrees with the limitation, arguing that the third power to conduct investigations is broad enough to include “all manner of investigatory activity.” He says his point of view is supported by state law that gives investigators the same powers as policeman. But the court was not persuaded.

“If we were to accept that tortured construction, investigators would, in fact, be police officers, and the three enunciated duties of the appointed State’s Attorney special investigators would be rendered superfluous. We cannot fathom how patrolling Interstate 80, issuing warning tickets, and confiscating contraband can be realistically viewed as ‘conducting investigations that assist the State’s Attorney with his duties.’ The prosecution of drug dealers and traffickers is indisputably a duty of the State’s Attorney; outfitting his own drug interdiction unit is not,” the court wrote. “Such a statutory construction would effectively give the State’s Attorney the power to create and maintain the equivalent of his own police force. Taken to its furthest logical conclusion, the SAFE unit would be no different than the county sheriff’s police.”

The court went on to say that the legislature wouldn’t have intended to create another police force.

“In our view, the legislature clearly intended that special investigators appointed by the State’s Attorney have police powers to the extent necessary to assist the State’s Attorney in cases brought before him and originated by traditional police agencies, or in cases where the police were unable or unwilling to investigate,” the court wrote.

Gibbons disagrees with the Court, saying it conflicts with Illinois statutes.

“The appellate ruling is contradictory in its reasoning — first recognizing the full police powers of the special investigators, yet limiting their police powers by preventing them from conducting self-initiated investigations,” Gibbons said.

Following the money

While the courts scrutinize SAFE’s statutory viability, an investigation by Chicago Lawyers into the drug money seized by LaSalle County’s special investigators raises other concerns. Using data that can only be obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, the magazine found that two bank accounts associated with various drug money added about $1.7 million since the program started in 2011.

The investigation includes anecdotes of cash seized during traffic stops that yielded no arrests or charges. Records showed the money was spent on travel to drug law enforcement conferences and on charitable programs, including sports team sponsorships and a college scholarship.

Towne’s use of the funds doesn’t seem appropriate, Bryant Jackson-Greene, a criminal justice policy analyst at the Illinois Policy Institute, told the Record.

“That’s not what we want police using these funds for,” Jackson-Greene said. “If they are going to be seized, it should be going toward things that are making the community safer.”

Towne also used the money to pay investigators’ salaries and purchase various equipment, including guns, ammunition and office furniture. But the money raises concerns for people because the law outlines ways that seized drug funds can be used and Towne appears to stretch the boundaries, according to Jackson-Greene..

Authors of the Chicago Lawyer investigation suggest the SAFE team may have violated the Cannabis Control Act and the Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act. The laws dictate how drug asset forfeitures can be spent, including on resources for deterring drug abuse and trafficking. But it shouldn’t be an alternative source of administrative funding, the law states. The Cannabis Control Act suggests supplying grants to local substance abuse treatment programs.

During the brief time the Madison County SAFE team operated, investigators made no arrests or seizures, Gibbons said, adding that the unit was outfitted using previously seized drug money.

“Essentially, we were making drug dealers pay for us to catch more drug dealer,” Gibbons said. He gave no other indication of how he would use funds seized by the Madison County SAFE unit.

To Jackson-Greene, even the noble purpose of saving taxpayer money doesn’t justify seizing funds if the person hasn’t admitted to or been convicted of a crime.

“You can’t justify theft by saying you’re using it for a good cause,” he said. “Property rights are too important to let police routinely violate them.”

He supports reforming civil asset forfeiture laws to outlaw civil asset forfeiture, which has been done in other states, including New Mexico. Others, such as Michigan, have taken steps to make the process more transparent. In Illinois, records of these seizures can only be acquired through FOIA requests, which limits public oversight of a practice that nets thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars for police agencies. Additionally, a person whose property was seized has to pay to challenge the action, putting up a 10 percent bond, but not less than $100.

Records obtained by Illinois Policy Institute show at least one instance of a seizure that netted $234 — a sum someone is unlikely to pay $100 to get back but could have for a legitimate reason, Jackson-Greene said.

He said that everyone deserve due process.

EAST ST. LOUIS – A Union County man alleges he was injured by city of Anna police officers.

Roderick Lynn Hileman filed a complaint on July 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Josh Ehler, Jason Leek, Scott Rice and the city of Anna alleging unreasonable seizure, false arrest, excessive force, failure to intervene and other counts.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on July 19, 2015, he was waiting in a parking lot on Vienna Street in Anna for a ride home. He alleges Ehler, in his position as an Anna police officer, pulled up next to him and starting yelling expletives. The suit states Leek then arrived and assisted Ehler in apprehending the plaintiff. The plaintiff alleges he sustained life-threatening injuries and suffered fractured bones in his face and head, causing him to suffer loss of liberty, pain and suffering, emotional distress and medical expenses as a result of the defendants' actions.

The plaintiff holds Ehler, Leek, Rice and the city of Anna responsible because the defendants allegedly used excessive unreasonable force, severely beat the plaintiff, used a stun gun on him, handcuffed and knocked him unconscious. He alleges there was no probable cause or legal justification to seize him as he had not violated any law.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and demands judgment for compensatory damages, punitive damages, cost of this action, attorneys' fees, and such other further relief as the court deems equitable and just. He is represented by L. Donald Huelson of Huelson Law Firm LLC in Olathe, Kansas.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:16-cv-00816

EAST ST. LOUIS – A Madison woman alleges that a biotechnology company's herbicide caused her to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Lynda K. Patterson filed a complaint on July 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Monsanto Co. alleging strict liability, negligence and other counts.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that she used the defendant's weed killer Roundup on her garden and landscaping for more than 10 years. On Aug. 12, 2014, the suit states she was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin lymphoma and underwent aggressive treatment, including chemotherapy. The plaintiff holds Monsanto Co. responsible because the defendant allegedly designed, formulated, manufactured and distributed the herbicide Roundup and failed to adequately warn consumers of the risks of exposure to its products.

The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment in her favor for compensatory and punitive damages, together with interest, costs, attorneys’ fees and all such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper. She is represented by David M. Hundley of Hundley Law Group PC in Chicago and Christopher L. Coffin and Nicholas R. Rockforte of Pendley, Baudin & Coffin LLP in New Orleans.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:16-cv-00825

EDWARDSVILLE – A minor pedacyclist and her mother have filed a suit against a driver alleging his negligence caused her injuries.

Katharine B. Earnest, a minor, by and through her mother and next friend, Amy M. Meyer, filed a complaint on July 15 in Madison County Circuit Court against Stephen B. Papajcik alleging negligence.

According to the complaint, the plaintiffs allege that on August 7, 2015, Ernest was a pedacyclist traveling northbound within the crosswalk on Edwardsville Crossing Drive at the intersection of Troy Road, when defendant proceeded through the intersection and struck her, causing her to sustain injuries to her spleen, neck, shoulder, arm and ribs. The plaintiffs holdPapajcik responsible because the defendant allegedly negligently and carelessly failed to reduce the vehicle's speed and lost control of the vehicle.

The plaintiffs request a trial by jury and seek judgment for a fair and just award of more than of $50,000. They are represented by Craig J. Jensen of MeyerJensen PC in Alton.

Madison County Circuit Court Case number 16L1009

An Independent candidate looking to get on the ballot in the Madison County Board District 2 race faces objections that may keep him off the ballot. 

Tyler Oberkfell submitted a petition with 273 signatures to run against Donald Moore, a Republican who beat County Board incumbent Roger Alons in the primary this spring. At a minimum, Oberkfell needed 232 signatures to appear on the ballot.

Moore raised objections to the signatures after looking over the petition and finding 55 names that he claims could be invalid because the individual either wasn’t registered to vote or resides outside the district. He and his attorney also raised questions about signatures that don’t match voter registration cards. Anyone who signs a petition to place a candidate on the ballot must be a registered voter in the relevant district.

The County Clerk’s office did a full check of the binder of signatures Oberkfell collected, comparing names and addresses to voter registration. A preliminary count from the clerk’s office found 16 signatures by people registered outside the district and 27 signatures by unregistered people, which put the official number of potentially invalid signatures at 43. Oberkfell can afford to lose 41 signatures and still appear on the ballot.

The issue is now before the County Electoral Board.

Moore said he went to the clerk’s office initially to see if anyone had filed to run against him. At the time, he didn’t know he had an opponent. He asked for a copy of the petition to examine on his own. He noticed what he called “a number of anomalies.”

“I talked to some people who said this may warrant an objection,” he said. “I’ve been working this through the primary against the incumbent. I’ve been working long and hard on this. I kind of wonder where he came from here at the last minute. I suspect that he’s been recruited by the Democrats to see if they can usurp me from winning in November.”

Though Alons was a Republican, he frustrated fellow conservatives on the board by acting more like a Democrat, Moore said. That’s why he opposed the incumbent in the spring and that’s why he took his concerns about the petition to county officials.

“I’m looking at him as (having) a Democratic bent, so I’m going to oppose him,” he said.  “If I can keep his name off the ballot, why give the Democrats a chance to put another person there? I know he's unhappy. He thinks I'm being dishonest, and I'm not."

Moore and Oberkfell met with the members of the electoral board last week. County Clerk Debra Ming-Mendoza chairs the board. Circuit Clerk Mark Von Nida and State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons also sit on the board, which is advised by assistant state’s attorney John McGuire.

“The board hasn’t made a decision,” Ming-Mendoza said last week. “We’re just now in the process of putting together where we are.”

She said they’re waiting for legal guidance to address objections raised by both candidates, including whether the board’s review should be based on her office’s binder check.

She said Oberkfell objected to relying on the binder check because the preliminary findings went beyond Moore’s initial complaint.

“We’re in a holding pattern right now,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll conclude on Friday.”

The Democrats’ convention theme is always one of “optimism,” while painting the Republicans’ convention as dark and pessimistic. Optimism is normally defined as hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something. But, the Obama/Clinton brand of optimism is laden with additional baggage, to wit: hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something while contemporaneously covering up, hiding or utterly disregarding the facts. I suppose it can be labeled “blind optimism.”

It’s the type of political campaign optimism that, in the wake of a terrorist attack, says “Move on. Nothing to see here. No need to worry. After all, these random acts of violence aren’t challenging the very existence of our nation. America is no less safe than it was a week ago. We have it under control. Move on.”

But one can be optimistic and truthful at the same time. While I am an optimist, I also know that grandparents across this nation like never before (in my lifetime, at least) are very concerned that their grandchildren will not experience the American dream as they did. They are concerned that we are leaving them a much more dangerous and fearful world than was left to them. And the older grandparents take it one step further: “I’m glad I’m on my way out. I don’t want to be here when it all comes apart.”

President Obama, if you are not aware of the mood across the land, you are not in touch with the people and no rose-colored glasses are going to make it all go away.

The first night at the Democratic National Convention, First Lady Michelle Obama emphasized what the presidency means to her and presumably to her husband, as well as Hillary. She said, “Hillary understands that the presidency is about one thing and one thing only. It’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve moved this country forward, by all of us coming together for our children.”

When leaders intentionally choose their words with such precision (“one thing and one thing only”), I always pay “close and very close” attention. As the invited agent of Hillary and wife of the President, she set the standard for the Obamas and Hillary, a standard no one should accept as met without critical thinking. Unless you are blinded by such optimistic fluff, you know that over the last seven-plus years: (1) the poverty rate, especially amongst the inner city Black population, has skyrocketed, (2) the unemployment rate for all Blacks, but especially inner city Black teens, has geometrically exploded as compared to Whites, (3) the murder rate in the inner city has gone up dramatically, (4) education in the inner cities is not working for the “children,” and on and on.

The deafening silence from this administration to the war zone in Chicago is tantamount to saying, “Move on. Nothing to see here.”

If someone has information to refute the foregoing inconvenient truths, please let me know. If not, what would be unfair with measuring the two-term Obama and one-term wannabe Hillary standard with the truth? Apparently, according to Michelle, the measure of the Obama presidency is about “one thing and one thing only”: have they used the power of the presidency to “leave something better for our kids?”

So, before shedding a tear of praise and applauding the cheerful and blind optimism of the Obamas and the Obama third-term-wannabe, I want the grandparents, parents and teens in Detroit, Chicago, Spartanburg (S.C.), Houston, Greenville (S.C.), Atlanta, Saginaw (Mich.), Memphis and St. Louis (nine cities labeled as “war zones” by most) to grade Michelle’s self-proclaimed reason to exist. Have they “left something better” for your kids and grandkids?

Oh, I’m not necessarily suggesting the Republicans would do any better. I’m merely suggesting that the Obama standard has not been met, a third-term-Hillary would be more of the same and that this time, perhaps all of you in places where optimism is hard to find need a change. This time, consider that hard truth before voting for sweet phrases, endearing smiles and the only reason completely irrelevant to anything: the first chance to vote for a woman. Aren’t there more important issues on the table?

Move on. Nothing to see here. The Nation has never been in better shape.

Yeah, right!?!

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Tad Armstrong is an Edwardsville, Illinois, lawyer, founder of ELL Constitution Clubs (www.ellconstitutionclubs.com) and author of “It’s OK to Say ‘God.’”

In five months before Donald Flack took the robe of a Madison County associate judge, he filed 30 asbestos suits in the circuit court.

He filed his last one on May 16, 2012, approximately 20 days after his appointment and 10 days before his first day on the bench.

At least three of the cases were filed after the court announced Flack was selected for the associate bench.

In 29 of the 30 cases, Flack filed notices of attorney's lien at the time they were filed.
 
Bob Perica of Wood River entered appearances in all 30 of the suits, but withdrew in all of them on Feb. 21, 2014, at which time the Napoli Shkolnik firm based in New York City entered appearances for all 30 plaintiffs.

Some of the plaintiffs are Illinoisans, but none are from Madison County. All claimants' illnesses are lung cancer-related.

Napoli hasn’t pursued the suits, however, and Union Carbide has moved to dismiss them for want of prosecution.

Union Carbide counsel Charles Anderson filed the motion on July 22, seeking to dismiss all 30 suits plus 16 other Napoli suits that Flack didn’t file.

Associate Judge Stephen Stobbs, who presides over the asbestos docket, has set all 46 suits for trials on Oct. 3.
 
Anderson wrote in his motion that, “Plaintiffs’ counsel has ignored multiple deadlines and requirements in the standing order, despite having four years to prosecute the case.”

“None of the above captioned cases are even remotely ready for trial on October 3," he wrote.
 
He wrote that plaintiffs had not tendered any product identification or exposure witnesses for deposition.
 
“In fact, plaintiffs’ counsel has not even disclosed a fact witness list in 42 of the above captioned cases,” he wrote.

He wrote that 26 plaintiffs had not answered standard asbestos interrogatories or standard asbestos requests for production.
 
He wrote that 24 plaintiffs had not disclosed case specific experts.
 
Stobbs plans to hear the motion on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 9 a.m.

Flack was sworn into office on May 25, 2012. He was picked by elected Third Judicial Circuit judges to fill the unexpired four-year term of associate judge Nelson Metz, who retired on April 6, 2012.

In 2015, Flack was among five associate judges in the Third Judicial Circuit who were not re-appointed by the court's circuit judges. He re-applied, and got his job back.

CHICAGO - A new report from the Illinois Policy Institute says that taxpayers are spending $32 million per year in "generous" compensation for lawmakers including salaries, per diem payments, mileage reimbursements, health care, dental insurance, pay for committee and leadership roles and pensions.

Its analysis shows that at $67,836, state legislators receive the highest base salary in the Midwest and the fifth highest base salary in the country. On top of base salary for what the institute says is "essentially" part-time work, almost all lawmakers receive thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in extra payments.

“Illinois taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay an average of $100,000 per legislator, especially when General Assembly has made Illinois the laughing stock of the nation," stated Ted Dabrowski, vice president of policy for the group.

In a press release issued Wednesday, Dabrowski calls on lawmakers to set an example of cutting back, starting with their own "pay and perks."

"Lawmakers haven’t passed a full budget, the state can’t pay its bills and yet, legislators still prioritize their pay over core social services,” he stated. “They should set an example for other areas of state government of how to reduce the cost of government to a level taxpayers can afford.”

The group, which frequently calls for reform of the state's underfunded pension systems, says that taxpayers pay nearly $15,000 per lawmaker for the General Assembly Retirement System (GARS) pension benefits they accrue each year. Taxpayers also pay millions into the GARS each year to keep the system afloat, the group states.

"Lawmakers can retire in their 50s, receive 3 percent annual cost-of- living adjustments, and earn 85 percent of their final salary after just 20 years of service," the group notes in the release.

The group's analysis also offers the following:

- Health care and dental insurance - In 2016, health care and dental insurance cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $7,300 per legislator. Illinois has 177 legislators.

- Per diem payments and mileage reimbursements - In 2015, Illinois taxpayers paid more than $7,700 in per diem payments and mileage reimbursement costs for each legislator.

- Stipends - In addition to their base salaries, Illinois legislators can earn between $10,000 and $30,000 in stipends for holding leadership positions or serving on a committee. The vast majority – 67 percent – of Illinois lawmakers receive a stipend in addition to their base salary.

Committee chairs in both the House and Senate receive $10,327. Chairmanships are awarded to lawmakers in the majority, which in both chambers is the Democratic party.

Sen. Bill Haine (D-Alton) is chair of the Senate Insurance Committee.

Sen. James Clayborne (D-East St. Louis) is chair of the Senate Assignments Committee.

State Rep. Dan Beiser (D-Alton) is chair of the House Transportation, Regulation, Roads Committee.

State Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Belleville) is chair of the House Judiciary - Civil; Labor and Commerce Committee.

State Rep. Jerry Costello, II (D-Red Bud) is chair of the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee.

Minority spokespersons also are compensated with an extra $10,327.

Sen. Kyle McCarter (R-Lebanon) is the minority spokesperson for the Senate Environment and Conservation Committee.