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As lawyers gear up to argue the validity of two St. Louis-area foreclosure mediation laws, the whole exercise could be for naught if the state Legislature succeeds in repealing the ordinances.

CNN legal analyst and author will address “The U.S. Supreme Court and the Major Issues of our Time" on April 11.

Drug-sniffing police dogs have their place, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. And it’s not on a suspect’s front porch.

The court Tuesday said officers typically need a warrant before taking an animal to the door of a house in the hope of detecting narcotics. The justices ruled on Feb. 19 that police officers can search someone’s car after a trained dog outside the vehicle alerts them to the presence of drugs.

After 34 years of service to the St. Louis Circuit Court, Ralph Layton, the manager of the courtroom clerks, is leaving the courthouse for the open road.

Fred Robinson’s case was one of the first to test the application of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that found GPS tracking was a search under the Fourth Amendment.

The largest collectible verdict in Missouri history won’t be collected after all, at least not directly.

Sessions will be held at 3 p.m. April 4 at the Independence courthouse annex, and at 10 a.m. on April 12 at the downtown Kansas City courthouse.

Recent public allegations against a northern Missouri circuit judge are now playing a role in the defense of a man facing a third trial in the killing of a Chillicothe woman in 1990.

The Missouri Senate’s Judiciary Committee wants your input on the proposed revisions to the state’s criminal code.

Sen. Bob Dixon, R-Springfield, announced Thursday that the Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee launched a website to garner public comments on the revisions the state Legislature is considering.

The Missouri State Public Defender System is making progress to address the concerns raised in a state audit last October. That’s the upshot of a follow-up report Auditor Thomas A. Schweich released Friday morning.

Two employees of flavoring-manufacturer Danisco USA settled their popcorn-lung lawsuit against their employer and two suppliers in the midst of trial this week.