A panel of judges says lawsuits filed on behalf of babies born in withdrawal from opioids should be considered by the same judge who is presiding in hundreds of claims from local governments against the drug industry. The Judicial Panel ...
Read More »Letters from law firm outline Bush’s business acumen
Never-before published personal correspondence from George H.W. Bush in the archives of Houston law firm Baker Botts capture a period in the late president’s life that is often overshadowed by his political accomplishments: his career as an entrepreneur who helped ...
Read More »Family, city settle hidden-evidence claims in Stockley case
The daughter of a black man fatally shot by a white St. Louis police officer will be paid an additional $500,000 to settle claims that attorneys for city and Missouri officials hid evidence in an earlier civil case. Attorneys for ...
Read More »Supreme Court seems to favor double jeopardy exception
The Supreme Court seemed likely Thursday to preserve a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime. Several justices expressed concern about upsetting the long-standing rule that provides an exception to the Constitution’s ...
Read More »Rapper sues makers of Fortnite for using dance moves
Rapper 2 Milly filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of “Fortnite,” saying they are illegally using a dance he created in their wildly popular video game. The Brooklyn-based rapper, whose real name is Terrence Ferguson, alleges that North Carolina-based ...
Read More »Supreme Court takes up closely watched double-jeopardy case
The Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same offense. And yet Terance Gamble is sitting in prison today because he was prosecuted separately by Alabama and the federal government for having a gun after an earlier robbery ...
Read More »‘Hellholes’ list goads Missouri lawmakers to pass tort bills
The American Tort Reform Association still doesn’t think much of the courts in St. Louis, but this year it likes those in New York City even less. The city of St. Louis, a perennial target of the national business lobbying ...
Read More »SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices employ signature phrases
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wants you to know she’s sorry. Justice Neil Gorsuch is only asking for some help. When you sit through almost all the Supreme Court arguments in a week, a month or even a term (as The Associated ...
Read More »Lawsuit: Drill bit left during repair caused Cessna crash
A drill bit left during repair of a single-engine Cessna aircraft is responsible for a crash in Arkansas that destroyed the new $712,290 aircraft, a federal lawsuit filed by a Missouri company alleged. The complaint filed Friday in U.S. District ...
Read More »Trump praises witness who refuses to testify against him
President Donald Trump praised a key witness in the Russia investigation Monday for having the “guts” not to testify against him, and said his former lawyer — who cut a deal with prosecutors — should head straight to prison. In ...
Read More »Supreme Court takes action in border wall, bar-fee cases
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected environmental groups’ appeal to try to thwart the Trump administration’s quest to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border while sending a case involving lawyers’ bar fees back to a lower court. The appeal ...
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