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A group of bail reform advocates are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to push the nation’s courts to abandon cash bonds in favor of nonfinancial conditions of pretrial release.

It only took 18 years on the bench of the Minnesota Supreme Court for Alan Page to start getting more questions about his legal career than his football career.

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The sponsor of a bill that would have changed employment discrimination law lashed out at the governor for vetoing it but said an override is unlikely.

A guilty plea, a completed probation, an expunged criminal record. What do they have in common? They’re all considered “convictions,” says the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. In a pair of judgments handed down Tuesday, the Western District ruled two men must still register as sex offenders even though they received suspended impositions of sentence and completed probation.

Two employees fired from a Chesterfield insurance company have sued for discrimination, claiming their supervisor frequently unleashed a litany of racial and religious slurs at them, including calling them “sand n—s” and “goat f—s.”

A St. Louis woman has asked the St. Louis Circuit Court to order Facebook to remove a profile that she claims improperly uses her name and photos.

A prominent Clayton family law firm has plunged into scandal over its handling of emailed evidence in a contentious custody dispute.

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State ex rel. SLAH, LLC v. City of Woodson Terrace (MLW No. 61986/Case No. ED94904 – 21 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, P.J.)

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Blumer v. Automobile Club Inter-Insurance Exchange (MLW No. 61999/Case No. WD72753 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Welsh, J.)

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When the deadly earthquake hit Japan this month, a St. Louis law firm scrambled to reach a group of its attorneys who had traveled to the country for meetings. The six Thompson Coburn attorneys had arrived in Kobe four days before the earthquake struck. None of the four partners and two associates was injured in the magnitude-9 quake, which rocked the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld the civil commitment of a sex offender, despite the opinion of a Department of Mental Health psychologist that the man wasn’t a sexually violent predator. DMH psychologist Dr. Richard Scott diagnosed sex offender Adrian Blanton with pedophilia but decided Blanton wasn’t more likely than not to commit sexual offenses if he remained free.