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Ten years in prison is not enough for a woman who restrained her 9-year-old daughter to allow a child predator to molest her, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. It marked the third time the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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Lawyers for a man who sued the Missouri Athletic Club for Missouri Human Right Act violations are entitled to $22,000 in attorney fees – not the $170,000 they sought – because the plaintiff didn’t win on those claims, the Missouri ...

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Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff and the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court have asked President-elect Barack Obama to work toward a “major change in state and federal sentencing practices.” The judges mailed their request to Obama’s ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

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A former H&R Block supervisor facing an employment discrimination lawsuit has the right to arbitrate the claims filed against him, a federal appeals court said Monday. Jodi Finnie, a black female, was hired as a business process development coordinator at ...

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Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sued the city of St. Joseph last week over a city ordinance barring protests around funerals and funeral processions. Phelps-Roper and members of her church believe ...

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The so-called “cyber-bullying mom” could learn her fate as early as this week. A hearing on Lori Drew’s motion for acquittal is scheduled for Thursday morning, and Judge George H. Wu has told the lawyers involved in the case that ...

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Dentist breached agreement by invoking Fifth; he and insurer off hook for $2.4M An insurance company does not have to pay the $2.4 million settlement agreed to in a wrongful death suit against a University City dentist. James E. Bubenik ...

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A man protesting St. Louis’ use of eminent domain with a three-story mural got the go-ahead from a federal appeals court to pursue his claims against one of the city agencies that denied his application for a sign permit. The ...

A man protesting St. Louis’ use of eminent domain with a three-story mural got the go-ahead from a federal appeals court to pursue his claims against one of the city agencies that denied his application for a sign permit. The ...