Update: This story has been modified from its original version to include comment from the president-elect of the trial lawyers' group.SPRINGFIELD — Just before wiping out a long-held rule that broadly shielded local governments from lawsuits, a divided state high court put the ball in lawmakers’ court.“Obviously, if the legislature determines that the public policy requires it, it may codify the public duty rule,” Justice Thomas L. Kilbride wrote for the majority in Marcus Coleman v. East …