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A St. Louis County Circuit Court judge has followed up a jury’s record $77 million verdict over a depleted trust with a judgment of $17.8 million for a second related trust. In a Wednesday order, Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington said Wells ...

After weighing police departments’ arguments that a $381,000 plaintiffs’ fee request in a case over Ferguson protest rights was too hefty, Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry cut the amount by more than half. Perry last week ordered St. Louis ...

A St. Louis jury on Friday awarded $4 million in actual damages and $3 million in punitive damages to a former administrative law judge who claimed he was retaliated against after filing a discrimination complaint.

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A second trial four years after the first over the loss of a woman’s eye ended with the same result: a defense verdict. After more than two hours’ deliberation, St. Louis County jurors decided 10 to 2 on Tuesday evening ...

An appeals court upheld a $20.5 million award to a man who suffered a brain injury after being beaten by a group of people in the parking lot of a south St. Louis Jack in the Box. Generally, business owners ...

The Missouri Bar should reimburse the Supreme Court for handling attorney enrollment fees, an audit released Friday said. Court staff also do work for the Board of Certified Court Reporter Examiners that the board should pay for, and the Missouri ...

An appeals court steered litigation over the employment status of nine men who worked FedEx delivery territories back to U.S. District Court, saying the question of whether they were employees or independent contractors should be submitted to a jury. “In ...

The attorneys for a man charged in a marijuana smuggling case continued their arguments Monday that the case against him should be thrown out over the alleged conflicts of a law firm that previously represented him. Thomas Anderson Jr.’s current ...

The families of five people who died at a Chillicothe hospital in 2002 said the hospital hid for years suspicions that a respiratory therapist intentionally killed the patients. The mother of Belinda Beisly, who was shot to death in 2009 ...

Plaintiffs’ attorneys who won an $11.5 million verdict in an asbestos case in July got the opposite result in a similar case before the same St. Louis judge in August. After a six-day trial, jurors on Aug. 7 gave a ...

A lawsuit over the resources for indigent criminal defense would be a “last resort,” said public defender leader Michael Barrett, who said that a scathing letter to Gov. Jay Nixon did not threaten litigation, as Missouri Lawyers Media had characterized ...