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The results of a court-ordered reorganization within the Missouri Department of Corrections could impact how executions by lethal injection are performed here. “We are moving ahead,” Department of Corrections Director Larry Crawford said last week in response to a federal ...

Attempted murder. When Baltimore detective Lisa Robinson filled out her application for a statement of charges in April, that was the lead charge. But when defendant Robert J. Williams got his day in court June 22, he faced three misdemeanors, ...

The Appeals Court has rejected a Wilkes County, N.C., woman’s claim that even though she was riding in a car operated by a drunken driver when she was injured, that didn’t make her negligent as a matter of law. The ...

A discrimination case against Truman Medical Centers could go to trial this week at the Jackson County Courthouse. Tiffany Steffee of Oak Grove alleged that while she was employed at the Lakewood location a co-worker repeatedly made sexually offensive comments ...

A 7-year-old boy received $43.1 million in a settlement for a vaccine that rendered him a quadriplegic. The settlement, which will be paid through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, is thought to be one of the largest in its ...

Kansas City’s largest law firm has announced that it is closing its Overland Park office. Shook, Hardy & Bacon will move its 16 lawyers and 29 support staff employees to its headquarters in Crown Center from its Corporate Woods office, ...

A decade ago Kent Morlan created his vision of a virtual legal office. Now he’s taking it nationwide. The Tulsa, Okla., attorney, who with his wife, Terrie, owns MoreLaw.com, intends to build a chain of 100 virtual centers nationwide. He ...

A man convicted of murder 14 years ago is entitled to a new trial because his attorney never objected when the original trial judge incorrectly instructed jurors on the reasonable doubt standard, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals affirmed. The ...

The life sentence that a Prince George’s County, Md., man received for holding his ex-girlfriend against her will after beating her does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment as the sentence was reduced to 10 years without parole, the Court ...

The Ironworkers Local 8 in Wisconsin worked out an amicable resolution in May with a former apprentice who sued the union for racial discrimination in October. Ricky Jones, who is black, was an apprentice in the Wisconsin ironworkers training program ...

Many companies find it makes good business sense to outsource one or more areas of their operation to third parties. Outsourcing is especially popular in information technology. A company may farm out one or a few well-defined and easily extractable ...