A search is underway for a new U.S. magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

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The storm that hit St. Louis in July 2006 knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents, downed trees and power lines and damaged the historic Switzer Building on Laclede’s Landing beyond repair. Just two miles south of downtown ...

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St. Charles-based American Railcar Industries agreed Monday to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a chemical company over railcars that exploded while transporting the chemical company’s product. OCI Chemical Corp., based in Marietta, Ga., sued for $14 million, plus punitive ...

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Judges and lawyers gathered in the en banc courtroom of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse on Friday afternoon to remember a former congressman, judge and friend: William L. Hungate. Hungate, who served on the U.S. District Court in St. ...

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Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

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Nationwide bankruptcy filings rose 31 percent in 2008 over the previous calendar year, according to information released last week by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Filings in the Eastern District of Missouri were up 22 percent over 2007, ...

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In a broad-ranging order earlier this month, a federal judge has allowed for a lawsuit challenging the city of Arnold’s use of red-light ticket cameras to proceed. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas C. Mummert III, of the Eastern District of Missouri, ...

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A federal judge did not err in giving a man who enticed a woman into prostitution a sentence almost two and a half times what was recommended by guidelines, a federal appeals court said in a 2-1 decision. District Judge ...

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