A $10 million wrongful-death suit brought against the trash company that employed the man accused of murdering fashion writer Christa Worthington is raising significant questions over an employer’s use of background checks. Specifically, lawyers said the civil case being brought ...
Read More »Student sent to jail cell for shorts in courtroom
A college student sitting in on a high-profile Cape Cod murder case late last month ended up in a jail cell next to the man whose case he came to observe. The student was among a group of Cape Cod ...
Read More »Supreme Court rules store owner not responsible for minor’s death
The operator of a St. Louis convenience store cannot be held liable for selling alcohol to a minor who died in a one-car crash after consuming liquor he bought from the store, the Missouri Supreme Court held Tuesday. The decision ...
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McDermott to appeal share in $455 million jury verdict McDermott International, a Houston-based petroleum industry engineering company, said it will appeal a subsidiary’s 45 percent share of liability in a $455 million jury award stemming from an Illinois refinery fire. ...
Read More »Voters report little trouble on Election Day
At least one Kansas City polling place briefly required voters to show photo identification during Tuesday’s election. Some voters early Tuesday morning were asked to show their IDs by election workers at Brush Creek Community Center on Emanuel Cleaver II ...
Read More »Attorneys find ways to deal with unpaid bills
Bud Reynolds, of The Reynolds Law Firm, ensures payment from family law cases by asking for payment in increments throughout the case. If a client doesn’t pay a bill, Reynolds said, the case simply goes unfinished. Photo by Matt Frye ...
Read More »Abortion case tests Congress' power to override high court
Pro-Life demonstrators stand silently outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9. The high court is hearing arguments this week on the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. Photo by Joe Marquette/Bloomberg News As the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Read More »FCC won’t drop all indecency findings appeals court had ruled on
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission reversed some but not all of a number of indecency rulings that a U.S. appeals court ordered it not to enforce. The regulator dropped rulings against episodes of ABC’s NYPD Blue and CBS’s The Early ...
Read More »6th Circuit: Morbid obesity not always ADA impairment
Morbid obesity is not an impairment for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at least not all the time. So the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said when it declined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s invitation to find ...
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Brazilian victims’ families sue Honeywell over crash Honeywell International Inc., the world’s largest maker of airplane controls, was sued by relatives of 10 Brazilians killed when a corporate jet collided with a Boeing 737 passenger plane on Sept. 29. The ...
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DNA evidence leads to charges in 1991 rape Jackson County prosecutors charged a Kansas City man with first-degree robbery, three counts of rape and two counts of sodomy for sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. John T. Words, 38, ...
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