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A spate of appellate court judges is aiming for a promotion to the Supreme Court. Five judges from the Eastern and Western appellate courts are among the 13 people competing to fill the soon-to-be-vacated seat of Judge Michael A. Wolff, who is leaving the bench next month.

The Missouri Supreme Court had to reach out of state for guidance on an unusual tort action. After puzzling over the case of a personal injury plaintiff who sued the defendant’s hired doctor for allegedly manhandling him during an independent medical exam, the court ruled in a 5-1 decision that the claim amounts to medical malpractice.

To avoid delays and ensure payments to rice farmers, the attorneys leading the multi-district rice litigation against Bayer CropScience say they agreed to carve out a portion of the $750 million settlement for cases filed in state courts in Arkansas and Louisiana.

Nine miles from her quiet classroom at Saint Louis University, law professor Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder struts forward, punching her fist in the air to the beat of a blaring Pink song.

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The Missouri Supreme Court had to reach out of state for guidance on an unusual tort action.

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A Clayton family law firm is readying a full-fledged appeal of a $25,000 sanction after the Missouri Supreme Court denied its writ petition this week. “It was a long shot,” said Alan Mandel, the attorney for the firm Hais, Hais, Goldberger & Coyne, on Tuesday. “We’re back where we should be.”

A pinch of stolen moon dust spent a day in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis last week on its way home to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. St. Louis auction house Regency Superior Auctions was set to auction a 3-millimeter piece of tape containing the dust on June 10. The auction house valued the tiny strip of dust from the famous Sea of Tranquility at $1,000 to $1,500. Regency Superior, one of the largest auctioneers of space memorabilia in the world, sends all its catalogues of space-related items to NASA, said David M. Kols, the auction house’s president. NASA vets the catalogues for items with suspect origins and occasionally requests Regency Superior to pull items from auction.

A record-breaking $95 million sexual harassment verdict could make employment plaintiffs’ attorneys rethink what claims they bring and provide an object lesson for employers.

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In the nationwide debate over mandatory vaccines for human papillomavirus, or HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., some argue only girls should get vaccinated because only women suffer from the cervical cancer caused by some HPV strains. But that thinking doesn’t hold up under constitutional scrutiny, says Elizabeth Chen.

Lawyers from around the state flocked to Joplin last week to offer free legal advice to survivors of the devastating Joplin tornado.

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The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plans to spend $4.7 billion over 23 years to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency over violations of the Clean Water Act.

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