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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Tom Maag</p>                                <p class=\"imgtitle\">Daniel Stack</p>           Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack dropped Cassens & Sons auto dealership from a personal injury suit last week and scolded attorney Brian Wendler for naming the dealer as a defendant in his suits.<br /> <br /> Wendler did not attend a hearing Stack held on the case Aug. 29, so Stack relayed the message through Wendler associate Thomas Maag.<br />  <br />\"I don't know why he continues to file these against these people. It seems clear to me that these people don't belong in these lawsuits,\" Stack said.<br />  <br />\"He is wasting his time and he is wasting the time of his people,\" he said. \"He is not seeing the forest for the trees.\"<br />  <br />Wendler has filed many suits over alleged injuries of drivers who haul vehicles on trucks for Cassens Transport, a business of the Cassens family of Edwardsville.<br />  <br />According to information Wendler provided to a federal judge in a separate case, he represents workers on referrals from the Teamsters union.<br />  <br />Wendler's suits feature long lists of defendants. In the case before Stack, plaintiff Keith Yount named as defendants five family members, seven Cassens businesses, four other companies, a Cassens trust, an employee and \"unknown defendants.\"<br />  <br />Defense attorney Stephen Szewczyk, of Reed, Armstrong, Gorman, Mudge & Morrissey in Edwardsville, moved in July for summary judgment in favor of Cassens & Sons.<br />  <br />He wrote that the dealer passively handled paperwork in an agreement between Cassens Transport and trailer maker Cottrell Inc., of Georgia.<br /> <br /> At the hearing Szewczyk told Stack that Cassens & Sons did not make, sell, possess, deliver, or inspect any rigs. He said the dealer made no profit on the transaction.<br />  <br />Maag, who had showed up 20 minutes late for the hearing, apologized and said it was not on his calendar. He said he was not prepared to argue the motion. <br />  <br />Stack, however, was ready to rule. He said Cassens & Sons was entitled to summary judgment. He told Maag he could move for reconsideration.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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