Welch v. Nyberg [1]

Blogger Carl Nyberg filed a complaint against local school board president and lawyer Emanuel Welch with the state Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission, claiming that Welch violated conflict of interest rules by voting to hire his brother Bill Welch as a custodian at Proviso Township high schools without disclosing that he (Emanuel) had represented his brother in a criminal action for drug possession a few years earlier. Nyberg then wrote about his complaint and the drug charge on his blog, Proviso Probe [2].

In September 2005, the Welch brothers filed a lawsuit for defamation in Illinois state court. They voluntarily dismissed the suit without prejudice in December 2005.