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President Barack Obama’s decision to lift funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research sparked a war of words between opposing sides of a proposal targeting state funding for the practice. Before Obama signed an executive order on Monday, federal funds ...

Pickwick Plaza in Kansas City. The apartment complex was subject to a foreclosure sale that accidentally cost the lien holder millions in a related property in Oklahoma. Photo by Scott Lauck Mistake during foreclosure loses millions for lien holder A ...

Advocates for fair housing called on the Missouri General Assembly to pass legislation to give tenants notice of foreclosure proceedings against their landlords. Legislation introduced in the state Senate by Sen. Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, would require lenders or trustees ...

The U.S. Supreme Court limited the Voting Rights Act, ruling that provisions aimed at maintaining black and Hispanic influence at the polling place don’t apply in districts that are less than half minority. The justices, voting 5-4, struck down a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court gave new life to two lawsuits faulting Pfizer and a GlaxoSmithKline unit for failing to warn that their antidepressants might cause suicidal tendencies among adult patients. The justices on Monday told a federal appeals court that ...

I’m not going to mention it. Not today. For at least 700 words of print on this page, there will be no reference at all to it. That thing. We started talking about it last year. Now we can’t stop ...

As attorneys, we strive to achieve the utmost level of clarity and organization in the legal briefs and memoranda that we file and serve. Why, then, do the fundamentals of good legal writing often fall by the wayside when we ...

Advocates for fair housing called on the Missouri General Assembly to pass legislation to give tenants notice of foreclosure proceedings against their landlords. Legislation introduced in the state Senate by Sen. Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, would require lenders or trustees ...

President Barack Obama’s decision to lift funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research sparked a war of words between opposing sides of a proposal targeting state funding for the practice. Before Obama signed an executive order on Monday, federal funds ...

A creditor is not entitled to have a foreclosure sale set aside after it made a mistake during a foreclosure sale, a Missouri Appeals Court said last week. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled that Vestin Realty Mortgage ...

It’s an appellate court’s prerogative to change its mind. And that’s just what the Court of Appeals in Kansas City did last week in a decision allowing juvenile officers to begin termination proceedings against parents whose children have been in ...