Year after year, South Carolina Sen. Lee Bright has watched as gays won more rights through legislation and the courts. And as he sees proposals elsewhere in the U.S. aimed at allowing transgender people to use the bathroom that conforms ...
Read More »EPA: No changes to federal lead water rule until next year
The Environmental Protection Agency’s top water regulator said Wednesday that officials are working urgently to strengthen a federal rule limiting lead and copper in drinking water — a key focus in the ongoing lead-contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. But Joel ...
Read More »Obama’s power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute
The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally. The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that ...
Read More »Court denies man’s attempt to charge Wilson with assault
The Missouri Court of Appeals dismissed an affidavit from a man seeking assault charges to be brought against former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in regards to the Michael Brown shooting incident. Cleve Molette filed the affidavit for criminal complaint ...
Read More »Appeals court upholds $20.5M verdict in Jack in the Box beating
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 ...
Read More »SBA opens local centers for disaster loan applicants
The Small Business Administration says business owners affected by the summer’s severe storms and flooding will have access to low-interest federal disaster loans through. Through Thursday, Sept. 10, SBA representatives will be available to meet with and answer questions for ...
Read More »Court finds probable cause, despite officer’s doubts
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck a serious blow to a Jefferson County man’s civil rights lawsuit against the local sheriff’s department. Thomas Bowden alleged that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated in 2009, when he was arrested after ...
Read More »Appeals court upholds judgment despite juror Google search
A Missouri appeals court upheld a $3 million judgment for a former police officer in a discrimination case despite a juror’s Google search on punitive damages during deliberations.
Tagged with: Kevin Hink Patricia Cohen Robert M. Clayton III Roy Richter St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Tanisha Ross-Paige
Read More »St. Louis County Courts main entrance to move
The St. Louis County Courts Building main entrance will move to 105 S. Central Ave. effective June 15, the court announced Wednesday.
Tagged with: St. Louis County Circuit Court St. Louis County Courts Building
Read More »Judge favors widow in dispute over real estate magnate’s will
A St. Louis County judge upheld a version of real estate magnate Robert Kaplan’s trust that left tens of millions of dollars in assets to his widow.
Tagged with: Bob Blitz Carolyn Whittington Christine Murray-Kaplan Christopher Bauman Robert Kaplan
Read More »St. Louis County jury awards woman $77M against Wells Fargo over handling of trust
Jurors awarded a St. Louis County woman $77 million against Wells Fargo in a lawsuit over the bank’s predecessors’ handling of a family trust. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington will decide damages in the lawsuit over a prominent ...
Tagged with: Barbara Morriss Carolyn Whittington Wells Fargo
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