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Decision easing transfer of cases allowed to stand The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling that makes it easier for companies to shift product-liability and patent lawsuits away from trial courts that have a reputation for favoring plaintiffs. The ...

Brian Hodak’s fight against city hall is finished. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not review the appeal sought by Hodak, whose wife is the former owner of C. Blake’s Bar & Grill in St. Peters, in ...

Attorney General Chris Koster has appointed St. Louis County Senior Judge Barbara Crancer as chief counsel of the newly created Division of Civil, Disability and Workers’ Rights. Crancer served as an associate circuit judge for St. Louis County from 1992 ...

Appeal will be a test for Obama administration The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the fate of a cross erected as a war memorial on federal land in a case that calls upon the Obama administration to take a stance ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her first public appearance since her Feb. 5 cancer surgery, returning to her role as one of the court’s most active questioners during a pair of hour-long arguments Monday. Ginsburg, 75, climbed ...

*‘One who praises bygone times’ —Horace, Ars Poetica The Times, they are definitely bygone, or, if not bygone, doggone near bygone. The Seattle Times and the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Los Angeles Times and The Roanoke Times and the St. ...

St. Peters bar owner loses case

As part of his plan aimed at preventing home foreclosures, President Barack Obama last week announced his support for legislation that would allow for bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages, hopefully allowing Americans to stay in their homes. But the ...

The Times, they are definitely bygone, or, if not bygone, doggone near bygone. The Seattle Times and the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Los Angeles Times and The Roanoke Times and the St. Petersburg Times — and all the other Timeses, ...

Former Daley aides

A Jackson County judge dismissed an Independence firefighter’s breach of contract suit, noting that an agreement between Kelly K. Scott and the city met “none of the traditional contract elements.” In sustaining the city’s dismissal motion on Feb. 11, Circuit ...