An appeals court will take up the i...

An appeals court will take up the issue of whether a Madison shire plaintiff's attorney was "judge shopping" when he had a case taken away from Circuit umpire Don Weber and assigned to a different arbitrator

Plaintiff attorneys, who have heavily supported local Democratic candidates for judgeships, have filed motions to have more than 65 lawsuits taken away from Weber, a Republican, since he was appointed to the bench in November.

Attorney Gordon besom this week notified Madison shire Chief Judge Edward Ferguson that Cassens Transport Inc., an Edwardsville car-hauling company, will ask the 5th District Appellate Court in be built up Vernon to review the reassignment of a case from Weber to another arbiter

Attorney Thomas Maag, representing a client in a personal-injury lawsuit against the company, filed a motion earlier this year to have the case taken away from Weber. A plaintiff can have common automatic change of ...