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The U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting a Bush administration appeal, refused to resurrect a federal criminal law that would have punished people for making pornography available to children through commercial Web sites. The justices, without comment, let stand a federal appeals ...

The Obama administration, asserting “the interests of justice,” is seeking a 120-day pause in military war-crimes trials of suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Military judges on Wednesday granted requests by the administration to delay two ...

The U.S. Supreme Court broadened the ability of students to sue over gender discrimination, allowing a suit that accuses a school district of failing to adequately address the sexual harassment of a kindergarten girl on a school bus. The justices ...

Legal Advocates for Abused Women is hosting a trivia night in March for a not-so-trivial cause: funding programs to assist battered women and their children during their time of crisis. The fundraiser will be held March 21 at Congregation Temple ...

President Barack Obama said he’s freezing the pay of senior White House staff employees who make more than $100,000 a year and imposing new ethics rules designed to diminish the influence of lobbyists. Obama also said he is ordering federal ...

President Obama’s inauguration Tuesday was — what? Milestone seems too small a word, historic too clichéd. On the day my father was born, William McKinley was president. In a span of 76 years, my father witnessed the progression from horse-drawn ...

St. Louis company won $17M award last year

Clearly William Heather wasn’t referring to the super-absorbent reusable cleaning cloth when he left hostile messages on a woman’s phone more than two years ago. What isn’t clear is exactly what Heather meant when he said he was going to ...

In Do the Right Thing, consultant Gretchen Neels offers advice on professional etiquette and other behavioral issues that might arise in a law practice. Q. A number of people I know have lost considerable assets during the past six months. ...

Ten-year-old Nigel Sanders summed up the mood of black Americans when Barack Obama attended services at Washington’s Nineteenth Street Baptist Church last Sunday. “Martin Luther King walked so Barack Obama could run,” Sanders said to a 170-year-old congregation where slaves ...

Clara Osborne serves cake to her fellow employees at Fields & Brown, Kansas City’s largest minority-owned firm, as they gathered in a conference room to watch President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday. Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, ...