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As Gov. Jay Nixon’s time in office is coming to a close, advocates are again calling on him to grant clemency for 15 women who are incarcerated in Missouri prisons. “With eight weeks left in office, Gov. Nixon, now is ...

Frozen embryos are legally marital property, not children, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday. The decision upholds a St. Louis County circuit court decision in October 2014 that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s frozen embryos should continue ...

Lawsuits filed against St. Louis area municipalities for harmful practices, such as so-called debtors’ prisons, have changed behavior in some areas but there is still work to be done, Blake Strode a staff attorney with the ArchCity Defenders, said after ...

Voters in St. Louis County opted not to retain Associate Circuit Judge Dale W. Hood in Tuesday’s election. The vote was 59.6 percent against retention with 40.4 percent of voters opting to retain him. He is only the third nonpartisan ...

A St. Louis jury handed down a $70 million plaintiff’s verdict in a case that alleged a woman’s ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. The jury reached its verdict Thursday evening, just a few hours after ...

Lincoln County Judge Chris Kunza Mennemeyer won’t file a brief or request oral arguments in her discipline case that comes with a recommendation for a six-month suspension. The state Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline recommended the suspension after finding ...

Disabled voters in St. Louis will have access to touch-screen absentee voting in future elections. The St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday adopted a resolution allowing the touch screen absentee voting in elections going forward. The resolution follows ...

Missouri Lawyers Weekly on Friday hosted its annual Up & Coming Awards, which recognize lawyers who are 40 years or younger or within the first 10 years of practice. “They’re from all over the state and practice all types of ...

A Columbia lawyer has been suspended from practicing in Missouri for two years following a nine-month suspension from a federal court. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Cynthia Norton sanctioned Michael McCrary and ordered him to disgorge fees due to his conduct in ...

Monsanto has set aside $280 million to potentially settle PCB litigation, according to a Wednesday press release from the company reporting its 2016 fiscal year results. The St. Louis company reached “an agreement to potentially settle all the legacy PCB ...

Grace Day may have passed away this summer, but she was still making people laugh Tuesday night as a room full of mostly female attorneys and law students chuckled at her quick quips caught on film. Day, who practiced law ...