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The National Football League and players arrived at a new collective bargaining agreement Monday after traveling on a road fraught with litigation in which both sides scored significant victories that affected the negotiations. Three lawsuits played roles in bringing about the agreement.

When it comes to earning a living, Missouri judges rank near the bottom compared with their counterparts in other states, according to a survey by the National Center for State Courts.

A federal judge put on hold a civil fraud lawsuit against the owners of National Prearranged Services Inc. to allow a criminal case against them to go to trial first. Senior U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber, of the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, said in an order last week that fairness demands staying all discovery to be given under oath.

Opponents of the St. Louis County laws establishing trash collection districts have lost in the Missouri Supreme Court, which said the county did not violate its charter by establishing the districts without an election. Weber v. St. Louis County is only the first trash lawsuit to be resolved, County Counselor Patricia Redington said Tuesday afternoon.

A federal appeals court said Michael Shanahan Jr. didn’t commit securities fraud when he backdated stock options. The former director of Engineered Support Systems Inc. didn’t intend to deceive, the panel said.

Two thumbs up. That’s how Clayton attorney Allan H. Zerman rates HBO’s new documentary “The Curious Case of Curt Flood.”

A three-story mural protesting St. Louis’ use of eminent domain won’t be painted over any time soon. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said this morning that the city’s sign code violates the First Amendment.

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Suspected Clayton bomber Milton H. “Skip” Ohlsen III pleaded not guilty before a federal judge Monday morning. A federal grand jury indicted the 39-year-old Ohlsen on one felony count each of transporting an explosive device with intent to injure,

Score another one for the National Football League. In a 2-1 decision Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal court cannot prevent the league from locking out its employees in a labor dispute. The players had filed an antitrust suit against the league after contract negotiations fell apart.

Milton H. “Skip” Ohlsen III has been indicted for the 2008 bombing in the Carondelet Plaza parking garage that injured Clayton attorney John L. Gillis. A federal grand jury indicted the 39-year-old last week on one felony count each of transporting an explosive device with intent to injure, maliciously using an explosive device, using a destructive device to commit a crime of violence, being a felon in possession of an explosive and possessing an unregistered destructive device.

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A $1 million damage award for a husband’s loss-of-consortium claim is too much — particularly when the wife received just $186,400 for her injury, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. As the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remanded Calvin Kingman’s claim against Dillard’s Inc. to the federal district court in Kansas City, it instructed the lower court to reconsider its judgment. “It’s no surprise,” St. Louis attorney Thomas Walsh said of the decision.