Breaking legal news for Friday, August 21
Central Illinois
- Broadlands man gets prison term in 2008 deaths, Champaign News-Gazette
Chicago area
- Suspect's lawyer: Beaten firefighter started fight, Chicago Sun-Times
- Judge denies media request to open all Blagojevich records, Chicago Tribune
- Cubs sued for man's death in wall collapse, Chicago Tribune
- Aurora man gets 16 years for child abuse, porn, Daily Herald
Southern Illinois
- Former Highland bank officer admits embezzlement, St. Louis Post-Disptach
- Corbin comes to class: Judge overturns Columbia school's ban on service dog, Belleville News-Democrat
- Lawyers take $9 million fee in 10-year-old Allstate class action, The Madison St. Clair Record
- McGreal named SIU law school's interim associate dean, Saluki Times
Nation
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