Missouri attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit against Monsanto claiming the company sold seeds without a safe corresponding herbicide, forcing farmers to spray illegal chemicals that drifted onto other farms and destroyed crops. The complaint alleges that Monsanto marketed ...
Read More »Cell phone company to pay $10 million to municipalities
Prepaid cell phone company TracFone will pay $10.3 million to 356 municipalities and St. Louis County following a settlement reached Monday over a case that claimed the company didn’t pay required taxes. The case is the latest in a series ...
Read More »Rams training facility case to go back to circuit court
St. Louis County Judge Michael Burton must stay arbitration and reinstate a case involving the Rams’ lease on a training facility on the circuit court docket, following an appellate court decision Tuesday. The underlying case involves a lease the former ...
Read More »Former mayor Bosley’s law license reinstated
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the law license of former St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. Bosley’s law license was suspended for at least six months in September 2014 over allegations he mishandled client money. A disciplinary panel ...
Read More »Dunne appointed associate circuit judge in St. Louis County
Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Ellen Wyatt Dunne as an associate circuit judge in St. Louis County. The position became vacant through the retirement of Patrick Clifford. Dunne is a partner at Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch in Clayton, where she ...
Read More »Missouri peach farmer files suit against Monsanto
A southeast Missouri peach farm recently filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, saying the company sold seeds without safe herbicide, forcing farmers to spray illegal chemicals that drifted onto their farm and killed more than 30,000 peach trees this year. Attorneys ...
Read More »Jeffco judge arrested for driving while intoxicated
Nathan B. Stewart, who last month lost his re-election bid for circuit judge in Jefferson County, was arrested Tuesday for misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and second-degree felony assault after a crash that injured his passenger, according to the Missouri Highway ...
Read More »Man charged with impersonating a lawyer
A Grandview man will appear in court in December in connection with charges that he practiced law without a license in Kansas City-area municipal courts. Reginald Taylor, 40, has been charged in Jackson County with two counts of practicing law ...
Read More »SLU Law names new dean
William P. Johnson is the new dean of Saint Louis University School of Law, effective Jan. 3, the school announced Monday. Johnson will take the place of Mike Wolff, who announced in the spring that he was stepping down. Wolff, ...
Read More »Clayton attorney charged with involuntary manslaughter
A St. Louis County grand jury indicted Clayton attorney Scott Bailey for first-degree involuntary manslaughter, alleging he was driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding over 100 mph when his car struck and killed a woman. Bailey, 44, turned ...
Read More »Lawyer who used racial slur among four disciplined
A West Plains attorney who used a racial slur about a federal judge was among four lawyers the Missouri Supreme Court disciplined on Tuesday. The Missouri Supreme Court suspended Jason Henry with no leave to apply for one year due ...
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