A woman who won a $125,000 verdict against her former employer for retaliatory discharge will have to go back to court to prove her cooperation with a federal investigation into the company’s overtime practices was the exclusive reason for her ...
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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 ...
Read More »Arizon broadens litigation over Russian sports domes
A St. Louis inflatable buildings company that won a nearly $17 million arbitration award against a client now is targeting a competitor over a contract for sports domes in Russia. Arizon filed a lawsuit Jan. 5 in federal court in ...
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Recently, hundreds of thousands of American households found an impressive cream-colored envelope in their mailboxes, marked “handle with care” in the bottom left hand corner. The return address: The Presidential Inaugural Committee, Washington, DC 20599. Upon opening, there it was ...
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Photo by Karen Elshout Robert Kenney gets fitted with a red bowtie by his assistant Diana Doelling to match his Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus colleagues, who all wore theirs in his honor. Kenney showed up at his going away party ...
Read More »Courthouse Roundup: More lawsuits filed against The Bullet Hole
An Overland Park gun shop faces more lawsuits for allegedly selling items used in a deadly shooting at the Ward Parkway Center in 2007. The Bullet Hole, which was first sued in December by a mother whose son was fatally ...
Read More »Freddie eviction plans continue during moratorium
The door of a foreclosed home is covered in code violation notices in Stockton, Calif., in September. Photo by Kimberly White, Bloomberg News Freddie Mac continues to pursue legal action to evict tenants living in foreclosed properties, drawing fire from ...
Read More »Billion-dollar verdicts vanish after appeals, new rulings
The billion-dollar jury verdict has disappeared from U.S. courtrooms. For the second time in the past three years, there were no jury awards above $1 billion in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. In 2007, there was one ...
Read More »Doctor testifies about his leaving WashU
A world renowned lung surgeon continued his testimony Friday in his age discrimination case against Washington University and his former supervisor, claiming the university took away control of his division and reduced his pay because he refused to retire. Dr. ...
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Shughart adds two shareholders in K.C. Shughart Thomson & Kilroy has elected two attorneys as new shareholders in its Kansas City office. Travis L. Salmon practices in business litigation with an emphasis in complex commercial litigation. Salmon is a former ...
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Recently, hundreds of thousands of American households found an impressive cream-colored envelope in their mailboxes, marked “handle with care” in the bottom left hand corner. The return address: The Presidential Inaugural Committee, Washington, DC 20599. Upon opening, there it was ...
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