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Trying to avoid confrontations that have plagued other large cities, St. Louis officials have proposed allowing members of Occupy St. Louis to protest in Kiener Plaza from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. and to make another area available all day and all night for a speaker’s corner.

Individuals participating in the Occupy St. Louis plan to ask the Slay administration to condemn the violence that occurred between police and protesters in Oakland, Calif., last week.

A former judge in the city of St. Louis will be among those deciding who should have a shot at the bench.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Dennis Schaumann was bound to make history last week. The judge was faced with the first-in-the-nation Frye v. United States challenge to forensic evidence retrieved from a ShotSpotter gunshot location system.

The workers’ compensation “equal exposure defense” will be before the Missouri Supreme Court once again.

Following four weeks of testimony in the St. Louis Circuit Court, the jury spent roughly a week debating whether the cigarette-maker Philip Morris lied to consumers when it marketed Marlboro Lights as being lower in tar and nicotine.

Can eight jurors convince one more to side with a class of plaintiffs suing cigarette-maker Philip Morris? That question is on the minds of plaintiff and defense lawyers alike as they wait for word from the jury that Monday morning said it was deadlocked.

A class action case against Philip Morris over the marketing of its Marlboro Lights cigarettes was sent to the jury Monday afternoon.

A class of plaintiffs suing Philip Morris over the marketing of its Marlboro Lights cigarettes is asking for up to $1 billion in damages, plus punitive damages.

After 11 years of litigation, an appeal and a few trips to federal court, a class action lawsuit against Philip Morris is almost over.

When the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority condemned Opal Henderson’s property, it destroyed her business, and the ex-junkyard owner is entitled to compensation for both, lawyer Lynette Petruska argued to the Missouri Court of Appeals today.