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Recording industry sues again for music downloading The recording industry filed another federal copyright infringement lawsuit earlier this week in Kansas City. The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, lists UMG Recordings and Sony BMG Music Entertainment as the ...

Two months after it was sued for copyright infringement, Kansas City Live has filed a counterclaim against the owner of the Power & Light Building. The dispute involves the use of the “Power & Light” mark, which KC Live and ...

After a transfer from an appeals court on Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court will take up the issue of whether St. Louis contributed to police and firefighters retirement plans in accordance with the law. Despite agreeing with St. Louis Circuit ...

An Indian car company that does not sell its cars in the United States cannot force a U.S. man to hand over an Internet address that uses the company’s name, a federal judge has decided. Judge Benson Everett Legg, chief ...

A physician who serves as a specialist in geriatrics at several St. Louis-area nursing homes faces malpractice allegations this week in St. Louis County Circuit Court over the treatment of an 84-year-old man. Willie Turner was put under the care ...

A Newport News, Va., Circuit Court jury returned a $10.4 million verdict for the family of a man who alleged that he had contracted mesothelioma while installing asbestos gaskets and packing in the engine rooms of ships from 1963 to ...

An unlicensed electrical technician who allegedly sustained burns to more than 80 percent of his body from electrocution while performing maintenance work at a Baltimore petrochemical plant has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. and ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas refused to block a ruling requiring EchoStar Communications Corp. to halt delivery of distant network television signals to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the halt in ...

A law that prohibited sexually oriented billboards along the state’s highways was far too broad, according to professors at two Missouri law schools. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Monday that reversed a U.S. District Court decision was ...

A U.S. District Court judge who sentenced a defendant to nine years above the high end of the sentencing guidelines failed to conduct a proper analysis under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling in U.S. v. Booker, the 1st U.S. ...

A controversial decision to prosecute a defendant in federal court on gun charges already disposed of in Massachusetts court has several lawyers attacking the fundamental fairness of the practice. In an Aug. 1 memorandum and order, U.S. District Court Judge ...