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The failure of a bill that would have changed Missouri’s expert witness standards landed the state a top spot on a national business lobbying group’s list of jurisdictions it considers to be unfair to defendants in civil lawsuits. The American ...

An ordinance allowing St. Louis County police officers to arrest individuals for interfering with police should be struck down because its vagueness makes it unconstitutional, Maggie Ellinger-Locke, an attorney for the National Lawyers Guild, argued at a hearing on Wednesday. ...

Correction: A previous version of this story had an incorrect first name for Judge Donald Stohr. We regret the error. The legal community is saying goodbye this week to longtime federal judge Robert Stohr who was known for his willingness to ...

A Missouri lawmaker withdrew a bill Wednesday that sought to strip scholarships from college athletes who refuse to play for reasons unrelated to health. Republican state Rep. Rick Brattin had filed the legislation Friday in response to last month’s threat ...

Jeb Bush finally delivered a powerful debate performance. But it may not matter. The former Florida governor repeatedly took the fight to front-runner Donald Trump in Las Vegas Tuesday night as the Republican Party’s 2016 class met on the debate ...

A lawsuit over the District of Columbia’s strict gun law hit a speed bump Tuesday when an appeals court ruled that a federal judge who halted the law’s enforcement didn’t have authority to rule on the case. A three-judge panel of ...

Texas sent far fewer prisoners to death row in 2015, marking the lowest number of new condemned inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state’s capital punishment statute nearly four decades ago, according to a Texas-based group opposed to the ...

Two Missouri legislators propose that universities revoke the scholarships of athletes if they go on strike. Another proposes mandatory classes on free speech for all students. And state legislative leaders say funding for the University of Missouri could be cut. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will decide whether a person with multiple domestic violence convictions in tribal court should be subject to harsher punishments for habitual offenders. The appeal stems from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from a ...

Edward Jones did not discriminate against a former employee because of her gender, or because she was a “whistleblower” against the company, a jury decided Tuesday. Amy Grosse, a former manager for Edward Jones’ security firms who worked at the ...

In its patent dispute with Apple, Samsung is asking the Supreme Court to take a digital-age look at an issue it last confronted in the horse-and-buggy era. South Korea-based Samsung on Monday appealed a $399 million judgment for illegally copying patented ...