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Supreme Court finds St. John’s Mercy committed ongoing unfair labor practices A six-week strike by nurses at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur ended in 2005, but the nurses just learned they won’t have to pay back the ...

Bradley Schlozman testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2007. Schlozman, previously U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, was chided on Tuesday by a Department of Justice report for his hiring practices while acting head of the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday strengthened the legal claims of the surviving children of residents who die in nursing homes. In two separate opinions, the high court ruled that the children of two residents are not bound by the ...

A woman with both physical and mental disabilities is due services under a state program, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, finding a 2005 change in the eligibility standard violates federal anti-discrimination laws. A lawyer on the case said this appears ...

The dismissal of a wrongful death suit over a boy’s drowning near a Kansas City school was reversed by an appellate court on Tuesday. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled the parents of Christopher Dill properly claimed in ...

Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday reacted negatively to a legislative proposal allowing the state’s Public Defender Commission to establish a maximum case threshold. In his first news conference since he was sworn in as Missouri’s governor, Nixon was cool to ...

I recently received an e-mail agreeing with one of my columns from a self-proclaimed “skeptic.” Although I knew the answer, I chatted about what a skeptic is. Here is what I’ve learned: Skepticism is a way of looking at the ...

This world we live in is moving faster than we can assimilate the knowledge. The business of law today is not the business of law of even 10 years ago. To be competitive in your career or in the ownership ...

Though it’s been open for about three months, a new immigration court in Kansas City won’t get its first judge until March. But once veteran Jackson County Circuit Judge John O’Malley joins the U.S. Immigration Court, relief should start to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

A former H&R Block supervisor facing an employment discrimination lawsuit has the right to arbitrate the claims filed against him, a federal appeals court said Monday. Jodi Finnie, a black female, was hired as a business process development coordinator at ...