( March 17, 2026, 2:25 PM EDT) -- MOUNT VERNON, Ill. — Courts assume that a jury follows instructions, and a judge’s declaration that an expert was in contempt and direction that the jury “erase” the testimony of an asbestos witness who testified for more than two hours and then failed to appear for cross-examination sufficiently remedied any prejudice, an Illinois appeals court said in a March 13 unpublished decision....