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A Jackson County circuit judge has denied a motion for a new trial in the case of an Oklahoma woman suing two pelvic mesh manufacturers. Judge Robert Schieber’s order was filed Friday without comment on his decision. The plaintiff in ...

Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Edward R. (Ted) Ardini Jr., of Columbia, to fill the vacancy on the Western District Court of Appeals created by the retirement of Joseph M. Ellis. Ardini has served as counsel to the governor since ...

A Clayton personal injury attorney is one of the two men police say were involved in a crash in which two vehicles that were street racing hit and killed a 73-year-old woman. Police said they plan to seek charges of ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a ruling that a press release by the Better Business Bureau of Greater St. Louis expressing concerns about a Michigan charity was not actionable injurious falsehood or subject to a ...

When the leaders of the National Black Prosecutors Association decided to include a panel discussion on prosecuting police shootings at its annual conference, they had no idea that events in the week leading up to the event would make the ...

Scott O. Wright, a long-serving federal judge for the Western District of Missouri, has died. Wright, who was 93, died Monday (July 11) in Kansas City, his stepson Skip Walther, a Columbia attorney, said Tuesday. Wright served on the federal ...

The Kansas City Council has agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a wrongful death suit against the city for a 2014 collision between a minivan and two children on a skateboard that left one dead. The council unanimously approved the ...

St. Louis’ black police officers’ association is calling for the city’s police chief to resign, claiming he’s unfair in managing the department and making promotions. Homicide unit Sgt. Heather Taylor, president of the Ethical Society of Police, says the group ...

A bankruptcy court was within its right in suspending two St. Louis attorneys from practicing in bankruptcy court and in imposing large monetary sanctions, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The attorneys in the case, James C. Robinson ...

Lawyers presented opening statements Wednesday in a case in which a Kansas City man and his associate are accused of buying distressed properties, selling them to consumers who would normally be unable to buy homes and then reneging on promises ...

The owner of a massive home in southwest Missouri has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that during construction the mansion was shorted more than 70,000 pounds of crucial steel fiber. Lawyers for Steven T. Huff also said in recent court ...