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There’s a lot to be said about being an incumbent. Not one lost re-election to The Missouri Bar Board of Governors. Voting closed at 10 a.m. Monday. There were contested races in six districts, including the Western and Southern appellate district diversity seats.

Some baseball players slide into home plate, some baseball fans get married there, but how many judges can say that’s where the governor appointed them? There’s at least one: Rex Burlison, who on Tuesday was named to the St. Louis Circuit Court.

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Lawyers for homebuilder Fischer & Frichtel want the Missouri Supreme Court to change the law on deficiency judgments and foreclosures. The aim is to use a property’s fair market value to get to “a fair result,” said Thom Avery, a lawyer with Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch.

An attorney-client relationship is not created just because a lawyer is paid a fee, a state appeals court said, reversing a St. Louis County judge’s decision to disqualify a lawyer in a family court matter.

Rex M. Burlison is the newest circuit judge in the city of St. Louis. Gov. Jay Nixon appointed his longtime aide to the post on Tuesday. The judgeship became available in April with the retirement of Judge Donald L. McCullin.

Gov. Jay Nixon has named John N. Borbonus to the associate circuit bench in St. Louis County.

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The settlement between the Metropolitan Sewer District of St. Louis and the federal government is a historic event that will improve not only the health of St. Louis area residents but also the region’s economy, federal officials said Thursday. MSD agreed in the settlement to improve its sewer system and treatment plants at an estimated cost of $4.7 billion over 23 years. A consent decree was filed Thursday morning with the U.S. District Court in St. Louis.

The former owners of the Doe Run lead smelter in Herculaneum are on the hook for $320 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit alleging emissions harmed area children.

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The former owners of the Doe Run lead smelter in Herculaneum must pay $38.5 million in compensatory damages to the children who suffered from exposure to high levels of lead, a St. Louis jury ruled Thursday.

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Christopher Morgan and his friends had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana that night in July 2007 when they crawled through a hole in the chain-link fence surrounding the abandoned national defense mapping site on South Broadway, near what’s now the River City Casino.

The former owners of the Doe Run lead smelter in Herculaneum needlessly exposed the community to high levels of lead, a lawyer representing plaintiffs in a personal injury suit argued Tuesday during closing arguments of the three-month-long trial.