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San Francisco asked the California Supreme Court to review a state law barring same-sex marriage, asking the judges to bring finality to the controversy following last month’s appeals court ruling that the prohibition is legal. City attorney Dennis Herrera filed ...

Organ donation increasingly is big business, and as it expands, so does an area of law devoted to organ bank issues. A Worcester, Mass., law firm has found itself with a case it says is one of first impression and ...

Joplin man sues MySpace over deleted profiles A federal lawsuit filed Monday against MySpace accuses the social networking Web site of interfering with a user’s rights. Brian Mora, 35, of Joplin, claimed in his pro se lawsuit that he created ...

Washington Mutual pays $47 million in settlement Washington Mutual, the largest U.S. savings and loan, said it would pay $47 million to Comerica to settle a 2005 lawsuit involving employees hired by a business it acquired this year. The settlement ...

With the holiday season approaching, lawyers have another reason to celebrate this December: The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure go into effect Dec. 1. The new rules, which relate primarily to electronic discovery, have been subject to advisory committees, ...

Dan Brown, author of the novel The Da Vinci Code arrives for a press conference before the launch of the movie The Da Vinci Code earlier this year. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Brown’s book, ...

The adoption of a 21-year-old under court jurisdiction since 1986 will be just one of the cases the St. Louis County Family Court will finalize during its annual Adoption Saturday celebration this weekend. Now in its sixth year, the family ...

Murder charge filed in neighborhood shooting A Kansas City man was charged Sunday with first-degree murder for the Oct. 28 shooting death of a woman in the 800 block of Montgall Avenue. Paul B. Dudley Jr., 31, allegedly fired shots ...

A small Lafayette County town will receive more than $28 million from Kansas City Power & Light after the company allegedly failed to honor a contract. The settlement stems from KCP&L’s refusal to make monthly payments on a 20-year contract ...

It’s a practice area where clients rarely pester their attorneys, cooperate fully and are enormously grateful when the case is completed. Welcome to the world of identity theft law. Although individual cases don’t pay a great deal – anywhere from ...

Does a civil cause of action exist against a hospital that failed to diagnose, treat and report the abuse that a 9-year-old girl was experiencing from her biological father? The Minnesota Supreme Court has been called upon to resolve this ...