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Drugmaker Wyeth has filed motions for summary judgment in three cases pending in the St. Louis-based federal court, and more can be expected. In Hill v. Wyeth Inc. and Cavender v. American Home Products Corp., the name Wyeth previously was ...

Protesters sit in on a Thursday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight of the Justice Department on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawmakers complained that President George W. Bush didn’t act sooner to put his five-year-old program to wiretap ...

The Jackson County Executive’s Office on Tuesday promised to have a balanced budget before the end of the day today. But that vow is one that Circuit Judge J.D. Williamson would not make. Though Williamson, chairman of the Circuit Court ...

Allegation 1: A judge steals money by false pretenses and conversion and fails to file a tax return. Allegation 2: Another judge gets involved with a woman who’s in his court to get a divorce, and he gives her advice ...

Charged with investigating complaints against judges, the Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline consists of six members: one appellate judge selected by appeals court judges, one circuit judge selected by circuit judges, two lawyers selected by the board of governors ...

Wal-Mart wins Maryland health-care spending case Wal-Mart doesn’t have to follow a Maryland law that would force it to increase the amount the retailer spends on health care for its 16,000 employees in the state, a federal appeals court ruled ...

The U.S. Supreme Court returned judicial discretion in sentencing to the federal trial courts two years ago in United States v. Booker. Or did it? Appellate decisions handed down since Booker indicate the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

The Missouri Nonpartisan Court plan was once heralded as the ideal compromise between appointing judges and letting the public elect them. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia adopted some version of Missouri’s plan after its 1940 adoption, said Leonard ...

The Missouri Nonpartisan Court plan was once heralded as the ideal compromise between appointing judges and letting the public elect them. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia adopted some version of Missouri’s plan after its 1940 adoption, said Leonard ...

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says judges should defer to the president in cases involving the war on terror. “I don’t think the judiciary is equipped at all to make decisions about what is in the national interest of our ...

The U.S. Justice Department has forced U.S. attorneys in California, New Mexico, Nevada and four other states to resign without allegations of misconduct, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday. Feinstein, a Democrat from California, said she had heard that Attorney ...