U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

After settling the lawsuit where a former player sued the Mascoutah volleyball coach for allegedly violating her civil rights, the coach is suing the player, alleging defamation.

The latest order a stays temporary injunction from another judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis.

The federal judge finds ‘likely’ 2nd Amendment violation days after different federal judge in Chicago declined similar action.

Several state and local officials have since been sued in federal and state courts by plaintiffs, including residents, gun shop owners and organizations that oppose the law.

The lawsuit, originally filed in 2021, accuses the agrochemical giant's plant in neighboring Sauget of polluting East St. Louis.