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The terms of a more than $50 million settlement — but not the attorneys’ fees — have been approved in a class action cellphone tax lawsuit involving more than 200 Missouri municipalities.

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When an off-duty police officer from outside St. Louis walked into a city courthouse with a gun, it marked the second breach of security at area courts in the past two months.

Saint Louis University School of Law will hire 15 to 20 of its 2010 graduates in a part-time, 12-week program dubbed SLU Law PLUS. The PLUS acronym stands for Practicing Lawyers Unified in Service.

If you’ve noticed more beeping and shedding of shoes and accessories in the St. Louis County Courts Building security line, it’s not just you.

Kenneth Haynes demands that auctioneer Chris Kozak, right, stop the auction of his property Wednesday morning at a foreclosure sale in the St. Louis Civil Courts Building lobby. Willie Pippens, a friend of Haynes, videotaped the confrontation. Kozak stopped the sale when no buyers appeared. Unlike in “judicial” foreclosure states, lenders in Missouri typically don’t have to get a judge’s approval to foreclose.

Criminal defense lawyer Charles Teschner has died in a traffic accident. He was 65.

Current St. Louis County Presiding Judge John Ross, an uncontested candidate in the 21st-circuit’s presiding judge election, was re-elected Wednesday.

A woman whose property was condemned by the city of Richmond Heights for the Hadley Township Neighborhood Redevelopment Area received a jury verdict nearly three times the city’s valuation evidence. A judgment following the August trial brought her total award to more than $413,000.

Jerry Carmody, left, and Dave Luce of Carmody MacDonald are representing a Taiwanese shoe company that claims Wal-Mart didn’t hold up its end of a multimillion-dollar supply agreement for a white athletic “Johnny” shoe.

J.C. Trading Ltd. claims it spent time and money designing the shoe and claims it had to jump through numerous hoops to become a Wal-Mart-approved vendor.

After being taken by surprise by the announcement of changes to the Missouri judicial appointment process last week, the 21st Judicial Circuit Commission is reworking the logistics in the nomination of a new circuit judge.