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The California Supreme Court, which legalized gay marriage in 2008, considered Thursday whether it was unconstitutional for voters to outlaw same-sex weddings in a ballot measure that sparked protests and calls for boycotts against its supporters. Gay and civil rights ...

Rush is wrong. There, I said it. It wasn’t so hard. Not for me, anyway. If I were Katie Couric, I wouldn’t be so foolish. Rush Limbaugh could feast for a week on a big network anchor like her. And ...

Diana Levine uses her prosthetic arm to strum a guitar at her house in Marshfield, Vt., in October. Levine, a children’s musician, lost her arm just below the elbow after she was injected with a Wyeth anti-nausea drug. Photo by ...

In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court made plaintiffs’ lawyers happy Wednesday with its 6-3 decision allowing individuals to bring state claims against drugmakers. Dirk Vandever, a plaintiffs’ attorney with the Popham Law Firm in Kansas City, called the ...

Group urges selection commission not to ‘recycle’ judicial candidates How many times is too many to be nominated for a spot on a Missouri appellate court? A group that criticizes the state’s method of selecting judges issued a statement Wednesday, ...

At all times, and especially in times of economic downturn and global unrest, volunteerism is one of our country’s most valuable assets. The Kansas City legal community has a history of actively pursuing volunteerism. Many law firms support “jeans days” ...

In his famous speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. described the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence together as a promissory note to every American — a promise of life, liberty and the pursuit ...

In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court made plaintiffs’ lawyers happy Wednesday with its 6-3 decision allowing individuals to bring state claims against drugmakers. Dirk Vandever, a plaintiffs’ attorney with the Popham Law Firm in Kansas City, called the ...

Group urges selection commission not to

Lawyer Stephen F. Meyerkord, “the perfect opponent,” will receive the Award of Honor, the highest award given by the Lawyers Association of St. Louis. He was dubbed the perfect opponent not because he’s easy to defeat; he isn’t. Rather, it’s ...

The world is full of victims of American International Group’s bad judgment, whether they know it or not. AIG’s push to market ever more exotic securities with ever decreasing attention to risk helped accelerate the economic tailspin felt around the ...