A woman said investigators’ tunnel vision and mistaken identity led to her being jailed without bail for nearly year in St. Louis in connection to a 2015 fatal shooting. Jadda Kennedy, 26, was initially charged with murder in the death ...
Read More »Witnesses’ names, yes. Social Security numbers, no.
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday that defense attorneys in criminal cases are entitled to know witnesses’ last known addresses, but not much else. The ruling stems from a dispute between the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office ...
Read More »Appellate court says embryos are marital property
Frozen embryos are legally marital property, not children, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday. The decision upholds a St. Louis County circuit court decision in October 2014 that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s frozen embryos should continue ...
Read More »$38M birth defect verdict upheld on appeal
An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $38 million jury award for a girl born with spina bifida after her mother took the anti-seizure drug Depakote. Plaintiff Maddison Schmidt, who was born in 2003, alleged Abbott Laboratories didn’t do enough ...
Read More »Jury awards $3M to family in 2011 Ferguson stun gun death
A federal jury has awarded $3 million to the family of a naked, unarmed black man who died in 2011 after police in Ferguson used a stun gun on him. Jason Moore’s mother, wife and son alleged in the lawsuit ...
Read More »Jury awards $70 million in another talc case
A St. Louis jury handed down a $70 million plaintiff’s verdict in a case that alleged a woman’s ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. The jury reached its verdict Thursday evening, just a few hours after ...
Read More »2 men sentenced in mining operation scheme
A suburban St. Louis man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay back $1.7 million to victims of a scheme that defrauded investors in a mining operation. The U.S. Attorney’s office on Thursday announced ...
Read More »St. Louis to make touch screen absentee voting available for future elections
Disabled voters in St. Louis will have access to touch-screen absentee voting in future elections. The St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday adopted a resolution allowing the touch screen absentee voting in elections going forward. The resolution follows ...
Read More »Curator out after racial sensitivity of exhibit questioned
The chief curator of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is stepping down after an exhibition that depicts 1960s black civil rights protesters and black women on magazines smeared in toothpaste and chocolate was criticized as racially insensitive. The exhibit ...
Read More »Monsanto sets aside $280 million for PCB settlement
Monsanto has set aside $280 million to potentially settle PCB litigation, according to a Wednesday press release from the company reporting its 2016 fiscal year results. The St. Louis company reached “an agreement to potentially settle all the legacy PCB ...
Read More »Another talc trial starts in St. Louis
After more than a week of jury selection, a trial against Johnson & Johnson got underway in St. Louis on Tuesday. Lawyers on both sides made opening statements, with the plaintiff’s attorneys claiming their client’s ovarian cancer was linked to ...
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