Authorities just couldn’t seem to agree in a recent attorney discipline case that brought different recommendations from a disciplinary panel and the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel and a 4-3 split decision from the Missouri Supreme Court. The disciplinary panel ...
Read More »Attorneys get $1.6 million in fees for patent case
The U.S. District Court of Minnesota ruled Tuesday that Icon Health & Fitness Inc. must pay Octane Fitness $1.6 million in attorneys’ fees and $144,697 in court costs in a patent law case. Rudolph A. Telscher, of the Clayton ...
Read More »Court denies man’s attempt to charge Wilson with assault
The Missouri Court of Appeals dismissed an affidavit from a man seeking assault charges to be brought against former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in regards to the Michael Brown shooting incident. Cleve Molette filed the affidavit for criminal complaint ...
Read More »Supreme Court upholds dismissal of traffic camera charges
UPDATED The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on three traffic camera cases Tuesday, in each case echoing courts that have dismissed charges coming from the cameras. In the case of Charles W. Brennan, who received an automated traffic ticket from Moline ...
Read More »Watkins continues to investigate baby theft allegations
An attorney representing a mother claiming her baby was stolen decades ago at a St. Louis hospital says he’ll continue investigating the matter despite U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan’s announcement Friday that a federal investigation of the case has closed. “I ...
Read More »Federal investigation finds evidence against baby theft
U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said Friday that a federal investigation found Zella Jackson Price’s baby was not stolen from her at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, despite Jackson Price’s claims that it happened. Jackson Price reunited with her ...
Read More »Polsinelli attorney found dead
Overland Park, Kansas, police said they found Polsinelli attorney Patrick Henderson dead Monday afternoon. Henderson had been reported missing earlier that day. Gary Mason, public information officer for the Overland Park Police Department, said police were looking for Henderson yesterday ...
Read More »Appeals Court resurrects claims from man injured in Ferguson jail
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday resurrected some claims in a lawsuit from a man who alleged he was injured while in the custody of Ferguson police. Henry M. Davis brought a civil rights action after a ...
Read More »Judge rules in favor of former A-B employees
U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. on Wednesday ruled in favor of former Anheuser-Busch employees who said the company didn’t deliver on pension increases promised when their jobs moved to another company. In light of the ruling the company needs ...
Read More »Armstrong opens office in Cortex district
Armstrong Teasdale announced Monday the firm is leasing space in St. Louis’ Cortex technology district. The firm is the second large Missouri law firm to open an office in the Cortex – Husch Blackwell opened an office there last fall. ...
Read More »Former county prosecutor sentenced to three years in federal prison
Richard Turner, the former Harrison County prosecuting attorney who admitted to stealing $540,000 from an elderly client, was sentenced to three years and nine months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Turner to pay restitution to his ...
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