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A St. Louis County jury has awarded $660,000 to a man who was injured on the job while working for Union Pacific Railroad. On Jan. 16, 2007, Steven Bell was working as a brakeman in Union Pacific’s Norfolk Southern yard ...

A St. Louis jury has cleared a driver of liability after finding that a child darted in front of his car. The defendant Aurelio Rosario struck and injured Arbnor Dullovi after he ran across the street on Ellenwood Avenue in ...

Property owners challenging their assessments have to prove their properties’ fair market values in their complaint proceedings. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that property owners alleging their properties have been assigned discriminatory assessments first have to prove the properties’ ...

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A FedEx driver was awarded $4.75 million Monday for injuries after two oversized tires fell on him. According to the lawsuit, Joseph Kennedy was delivering commercial freight for FedEx in 2003. For the most part, Kennedy only delivered freight. He ...

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Use of Fireman's Rule rejected

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld a $27 million verdict against a company for allegedly manufacturing faulty breathing equipment that led to a firefighter's death. This family portrait from before the fatal accident in 2002 features St. Louis City firefighter Derek Martin, his wife Angela and his children Jordan, Denzel and Kayla.

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the voluntary payment doctrine is not a defense for a violation of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The court, in an opinion issued on Tuesday, allowed a class action against Charter Communications to proceed. ...

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A potential class action lawsuit in St. Louis County alleges that Apple and AT&T Mobility misled consumers about the iPhone's capability to send picture and video text messages. Attorneys Tim Engelmeyer and Joel Schwartz filed the lawsuit. “See, if I try to text this picture to you, it doesn't work,” Schwartz says as he demonstrates in his office in Clayton on Monday. AT&T is the only cellular carrier for the iPhone. Apple and AT&T sell the iPhone in both of their stores.

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A St. Louis Circuit judge has upheld the city's decision to demote an ex-fire chief. The St. Louis City Civil Service Commission first upheld Sherman George's demotion last August and George (pictured) appealed the commission's decision to the circuit court. Judge Robert Dierker affirmed the commission's decision on Friday and had asked the commission to supplement its findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding Sherman George's claims of racial discrimination and constructive discharge. The commission has 60 days to turn the decision over to the court.

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The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a writ asking for the court to address problems with the Missouri Public Defender System. Attorney L. Steven Goldblatt, of the Goldblatt Law Firm, filed the emergency writ of petition for habeas corpus Wednesday ...

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Judge John E. Parrish, the current longest-serving judge in the state, is retiring at the beginning of September. Parrish currently serves of the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District and was appointed to the position in 1990. Before serving on ...

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An employment lawsuit that set a new standard for summary judgment in discrimination cases was settled for $775,000. The city of Maryland Heights released the details of the settlement with former police officer Douglas Daugherty 15 weeks after Missouri Lawyers ...

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