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Directors of canceled raffle ordered to pay $100,464 The promoters of a high-profile raffle that was canceled after ticket sales have been ordered to pay $100,464 and are banned from operating a raffle or soliciting charitable donations in Missouri under ...

The California Supreme Court agreed to review state laws barring same-sex marriage, setting the stage for the court to decide whether California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts to allow the unions. The seven-member court said on Wednesday it ...

An employer fires a worker for an unlawful reason, such as age discrimination. The employee sues for wrongful termination. The employer later discovers that the employee had lied on the job application and failed to disclose a prior conviction. Now ...

Reid Trautz’s law blog has all sorts of good information for legal practitioners, from technology tips to practice management advice and beyond. Somewhat to his chagrin, the item that gets the most hits from visitors is his 2006 Holiday Gift ...

Florida top court revises $145 billion smoker opinion The Florida Supreme Court revised part of a July decision that invalidated a $145 billion punitive-damage verdict against Altria Group’s Philip Morris USA and other cigarette makers. The changes, which don’t disturb ...

An eastern Jackson County lawyer was selected Wednesday afternoon to become the next commissioner in Division 43. Patrick Campbell, of Campbell & Simpkins, was one of 20 applicants who pursued the opening and were interviewed by the selection committee last ...

A law that will take effect at the beginning of the year will require lawyers who lobby to perform some extra financial reporting. According to the Missouri Ethics Commission, beginning Jan. 1 a lobbyist will be defined as any person ...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continues his fight against H&R Block’s Express IRA accounts with a refiled suit this week. A New York judge threw out a suit against Kansas City-based H&R Block last month. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg ...

One of the world’s largest banking institutions and a local company face accusations that they schemed a Houston firm out of millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Independence, Pier to Pier sued U.S. Bank and ...

Nudity in a so-called adult establishment is not an intoxication-related traffic offense and cannot be regulated in a bill that was introduced to change the state’s drunken driving laws. So said the Missouri Supreme Court in a decision affirming Cole ...

Missouri Democrat and former state attorney general Ike Skelton, who will become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee next month, said he opposes any temporary increase in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to help secure Baghdad. “I ...