Plaintiff, Consolidation Coal Company (Consolidation), brought this action in the circuit court of Cook County on January 18, 1977, to recover damages allegedly sustained on August 7, 1973, when its wheel excavator collapsed at its Pinckneyville, Illinois...

Several years ago, a team of DEA agents worked with a paid informant to investigate the activities of Carlos Medina. Eventually, Brian Fleming, the case agent assigned by the DEA to manage the operation, directed the informant, Enrique Ramos, to meet...

In 1997, defendant William Gatz, through Gatz Properties, and Carr, through Auriga, formed Peconic Bay for the purpose of holding a long-term leasehold in a property owned by the Gatz family (the "Property"). The idea was to develop a golf course...

Payne, a mentally dull 19-year-old Negro with a fifth-grade education, was convicted in a state court of first degree murder and sentenced to death. His employer, J.M. Robertson, was found in his office dead or dying from crushing blows inflicted upon...

Henry Spell, admittedly inebriated on alcohol and quaaludes, was stopped by Officer McDaniel while driving an automobile in the City of Fayetteville. After talking with Spell and finding a quantity of quaaludes in his automobile, McDaniel arrested him...

Virginia Anthony was indicted on a class B felony charge of accomplice to cruelty to animals for allegedly assisting her husband, Michael Anthony, in binding a colt's four legs together with the purpose of leaving the colt on the ground, which caused...

Plaintiff, Jo Laverne Alden (“Alden”), is the mother of Ginger Alden, the former girlfriend of the late Elvis Presley. In January of 1977, Presley became engaged to Ginger Alden. He was quite generous to several members of the Alden family...

For more than two decades, Patricia Hamilton has suffered from Crohn's disease, recurring joint pain, arthritis, and several other ailments. In September 2001, Patricia experienced a "flare" in her Crohn's disease and sought treatment...

At the end of May 1994, federal agents arrested Darryl Storm. Storm and others were charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, and with money laundering. Storm agreed to cooperate with the government and provided agents with a list of...

An action was commenced by plaintiff Billy Lee South for damages sustained as a result of a collision between a pickup truck, owned and driven by South, and the Railroad's train at the Barrett Avenue crossing in Larimore, North Dakota, on January...