Comments on: The Lawsuits of Madison County https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:55:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-364 Speaking of slush funds

A loophole in Illinois campaign finance law allowed lawyers to funnel money to nonprofit groups that then funded Gordon Maag’s Supreme Court election campaign, while hiding the source of their funding. The Edwardsville-based “Justice For All Foundation…

]]> By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:27:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-363 Joseph R. Biden III

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

]]> By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-362 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:44:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-362 Joseph R. Biden III

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

]]> By: PointOfLaw Featured Discussion https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:33:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-361 Joseph R. Biden III

…is the son of the similarly-named Democratic senator from Delaware. The Madison County Record is reporting that the SimmonsCooper law firm (OL Dec. 1; Sep. 20; Sep. 28; OL Jan. 5, 2004) has affiliated itself with the 36-year-old’s Delaware law…

]]> By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:10:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-360 Update: Whittington v. U.S. Steel and Madison County asbestos shenanigans

We’ve previously been critical of the Whittington v. U.S. Steel case (Overlawyered, Jan. 5, 2004; Sep. 20). Now the U.S. Steel lawyer makes a sensational allegation: it appears one of U.S. Steel’s co-defendants was a Madison County company represented …

]]> By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:08:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-359 Update: Whittington v. U.S. Steel and Madison County asbestos shenanigans

We’ve previously been critical of the Whittington v. U.S. Steel case (Overlawyered, Jan. 5, 2004; Sep. 20). Now the U.S. Steel lawyer makes a sensational allegation: it appears one of U.S. Steel’s co-defendants was a Madison County company represented …

]]> By: forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2004/01/the-lawsuits-of-madison-county/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:09:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=642#comment-358 The Lawsuits of Madison County

In 2002, Madison County (Dec. 3, Oct. 7, etc.)–where juries and judges are notorious for finding liability where no other courts will–led the nation in class actions per capita when there were 77 filed in the state courts there. In…

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