Anti-war protesters who want to share their message at an air show in Columbia can let their ideas take flight without worry. The U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a request to hear an appeal from a group that runs ...
Read More »77-year-old fights her way to Supreme Court
Standing at an umbrella-covered desk in her junk-strewn salvage yard, Opal Henderson seems as determined as ever to hang onto the property the city of St. Louis wants to condemn in the name of redevelopment. The business at 1202 S. ...
Read More »Odenwald named to Eastern District
Gov. Matt Blunt named former St. Louis County Councilman Kurt S. Odenwald to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, on Wednesday. Odenwald expects to join the court at the beginning of November. Blunt chose Odenwald over St. Louis County ...
Read More »Devlin faces final charges of creating child pornography
Prosecutors say he did not distribute images
Read More »Court lets stand victory for protesters
Anti-war protesters who want to share their message at an air show in Columbia can let their ideas take flight without worry. The U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a request to hear an appeal from a group that runs ...
Read More »Judge blocks rule meant to expose illegal workers
A federal judge ordered the Bush administration not to enforce a rule aimed at exposing whether companies have hired illegal immigrants, saying it could lead to the firing of lawfully employed workers. The so-called no-match rule, which is aimed at ...
Read More »Supreme Court deadlocks on special education case
The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 over whether school districts must finance private education for disabled children who haven’t tried a public special education program first. After hearing arguments on Oct. 1, the justices said in a one-page statement Wednesday ...
Read More »DuPont must provide medical monitoring
DuPont Co., the third-largest U.S. chemical maker, must pay for monitoring the health of people living near a waste pile from a former zinc-smelting facility, a West Virginia jury decided. The verdict on Wednesday in Clarksburg, W.Va., followed an Oct. ...
Read More »Anti-stem cell measure cleared to get signatures
A group working to undo the main thrust of an amendment protecting embryonic stem cell research has the green light to start collecting signatures, the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday. The group, Cures Without Cloning, says it wants to ...
Read More »77-year-old junkyard owner fights her way to Supreme Court
Opal Henderson, owner of Henderson’s Salvage Yard in St. Louis, says the city hasn’t offered her enough money to move her family business. Photo by Karen Elshout Standing at an umbrella-covered desk in her junk-strewn salvage yard, Opal Henderson seems ...
Read More »Shareholder suits against vendors, banks questioned
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether investors should be able to sue a company’s banks, vendors and other business partners for playing a role in a scheme to deceive shareholders. The justices heard arguments Tuesday in Washington on a lawsuit ...
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