Steve Korris

CHARLOTTE - Asbestos lawyers coordinated destruction of documents in bankruptcy trusts to evade rulings of bankruptcy judge Laura Beyer, according to a letter Beyer posted on the docket of Georgia Pacific entity Bestwall.

BENTON - Jurors at U.S. district court didn’t decide whether attorney James Borland of Springfield committed legal malpractice in St. Clair County but they heard fascinating testimony from him and from the lawyer who defeated him, Thomas Keefe III of Swansea. Keefe testified for two and a half hours in the court of District Judge Staci Yandle on March 12 and Borland testified for five hours on March 13. Keefe told jurors he wanted to keep Borland on his heels.

BENTON - Sierra Club has ended its effort to shut down the Prairie State Generating power plant near Marissa. The club and Prairie State stipulated on April 16 that the club would dismiss the suit with prejudice and both sides would bear their own costs. Prairie State provides power to about 2.5 million families mostly from Ohio to Missouri. Each year it burns about 6.5 million tons of coal from a mine below the plant.