Saturday, May 18, 2013
A lawsuit against an imprisoned preacher from Crete and an Indiana megachurch topped the week's court news.
A former megachurch preacher sentenced to 12 years in federal prison in March for carrying on a sexual relationship with a teenage member of his congregation was sued in Will County court. In addition to preacher Jack Schaap, 55, of Crete, the First Baptist Church of Hammond was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The parents of a teenage girl Schaap had sex with while he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond filed the lawsuit. The suit identifies the parents as "John Doe and Mary Doe," and the teen as "Jane Doe." The suit gives Jane Doe's date of birth as June 27, 1995. Here's what else was going on at the area's courthouses: Check out all these stories and more on our Facebook page.
Friday, May 17, 2013
A woman claims she overdosed on her thyroid medicine because Walgreens screwed up.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A woman claims she overdosed on her thyroid medicine because Walgreens screwed up.
A woman claiming a medication miscalculation landed her in the hospital is suing Walgreens. An attorney representing plaintiff Ginger Joseph filed the lawsuit in Will County court. The suit claims Joseph's doctor called a prescription for the thyroid drug liothyronine in to the Walgreens on Lily Cache Lane in Bolingbrook on May 10, 2011. But instead of providing the prescribed dosage of liothyronine, the pharmacy gave Joseph "one thousand times greater than the dosage prescribed" by the doctor, the lawsuit said. When Joseph took the medication, she "suffered thyrotoxicity causing severe injuries requiring in-patient hospitalization, and including pain and suffering, increased heart rate palpitations, tachycardia (and) severe fatigue," …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
A former Plainfield North gym teacher pleaded guilty to meeting a teen for sex. And that was just one of the things going on in court this week.
More than two years after the police caught her in a car with a half-dressed student from the high school where she was a teacher, Ashley Blumenshine copped a plea. Blumenshine, a 30-year-old former Plainfield North gym teacher, will have to do 11 days in jail. She will also spend two years on sex offender probation and 10 yeas on the Illinois sex offender registry. She tearfully apologized before she was taken into custody to start doing her time. Let's look at what else was going on in the area's courthouses this past week: Check out all these stories and more on our Facebook page.
Friday, January 4, 2013
An Indiana man claims to have broken a tooth when biting into a Subway pulled pork sandwich loaded with meat—and bones—supplied by a Bolingbrook company.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
An Indiana man claims to have broken a tooth when biting into a Subway pulled pork sandwich loaded with meat—and bones—supplied by a Bolingbrook company.
An Indiana construction superintendent who claims he broke a tooth biting into a bony Subway sandwich is blaming a Bolingbrook company for allegedly providing the restaurant with bad meat. The broken-toothed man, Matthew Ritchie, filed a lawsuit against Bolingbrook's Quantum Foods. The suit alleges the company supplied pulled pork containing "one or more bones which should have been removed before being sold to a member of the public." Ritchie filed his suit at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, but broke his tooth after buying the sandwich at a Subway in Champaign in July 2011, said his attorney, John E. Marszalek of Chicago. Ritchie was working in the Champaign area when he stopped into the Subway for an ill-fated lunch, Marszalek …
Monday, November 19, 2012
The county and a private nursing company were also named in the suit filed by the attorney for an unidentified man with HIV.
A nurse working at the county jail told an inmate's brother he has HIV, causing him "great humiliation and mental anguish," according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court on Friday. The HIV-infected inmate's name was withheld in the lawsuit. The man's attorney, William R. Cassian, filed a petition to "proceed under (a) fictitious name" on the grounds that the suit "involves very private information that is so sensitive" it is protected by the state's HIV Disclosure Act. The petition says the man is older than 18 and lives in DuPage County. The lawsuit alleges the unidentified man was "confined in the detention center" on Nov. 18, 2011. According to jail records, of the 24 men locked up in the Will County Adult Detention Center on Nov. …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Super-suer Jonathan Lee Riches recently made his way into the file for Drew Peterson's murder case, but it wasn't his first legal action against the disgraced ex-cop.
Serial suer Jonathan Lee Riches made a splash when he filed a wild letter in convicted wife-killer Drew Peterson's court case, but it wasn't the first legal action he's taken against the disgraced former Bolingbrook cop. Riches, who has filed lawsuits against Bill Belichick, George W. Bush, Steve Jobs and Perez Hilton, sued Peterson and slain third wife Kathleen Savio back in January 2008. At the time, Savio had been dead for nearly four years, Peterson was more than a year away from being charged with her murder, and Riches was doing time in a South Carolina federal prison for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aiding and abetting. In the 2008 lawsuit filed in California's Northern District, Riches accused Peterson and Savio…
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The former Oak Brook cop son of Drew Peterson has a $10 million lawsuit, says the Sun-Times.
The disgraced former Oak Brook cop son of disgraced former Bolingbrook cop (and current murder defendant) Drew Peterson claims in a $10 million lawsuit his rights were violated when he was fired, according to a story in the Sun-Times. Stephen Peterson, who was fired in February 2011, is suing in federal court. He is going after former Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan, Fire and Police Board Chairman Frederick Cappetta and the Village of Oak Brook. The three-man Oak Brook Fire and Police board voted as a bloc in 2011 to ax Stephen Peterson from the department he had worked at for more than six years. Sheahan had charged Stephen Peterson with obstructing investigators, possession of an unlawful weapon, and failing to keep an internal …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Mom of former student: "My son has been through hell."
Valley View School District will get a few more weeks to respond to a lawsuit filed by a former Romeoville and Bolingbrook high school basketball player. Judge Ronald Guzman granted motions by Valley View and co-defendants Jim Boudouris, RHS’ athletic director, and Jeffrey Bambule, Romeoville boys basketball coach, seeking more time to respond to the lawsuit, filed in November by former student Devon Hodges. Hodges’ complaint alleges the teen was subjected to "unfathomable abuse, harassment, and even torture" after transferring from RHS to BHS when his family moved from Romeoville to Bolingbrook. The suit also accuses Bambule and Boudouris of plotting to force the 6-foot-7 forward to return to RHS, along with badmouthing the teen and …
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4:22 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
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