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A St. Louis federal judge ruled KKK leader Frank Ancona can get attorneys’ fees after winning a court order to host a picnic at a state park, but not quite as much as he asked for.

The U.S. Supreme Court this year may administer aspirin to appeals courts suffering headaches over where federal employees can appeal decisions on discrimination claims.

Saying that Larry Bauer was a “significant and real part of the problem” as a consumer of child pornography, St. Louis County Circuit Judge Robert Cohen on Thursday sentenced the former Stinson Morrison Hecker partner to five years in prison.

A federal judge in St. Louis sentenced former U.S. Fidelis co-owner Cory Atkinson to three years and four months in prison and ordered him to pay more than $4 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

Four years after two of his computers were seized from his home in a police raid, former Stinson Morrison Hecker partner Larry Bauer is expected to face prison time on state child pornography charges.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Ann Medler stepped down Sept. 7 after 19 years on the federal bench, handing off her chief U.S. magistrate judge title to Thomas Mummert III at a sometimes tearful retirement ceremony at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis.

An appeals court on Tuesday revived Ameren’s $32 million lawsuit against its insurer over covering the costs of clean-up for the 2005 Taum Sauk reservoir breach.

Faith Satellite Radio said in a 2010 lawsuit that the church backed out of an agreement to sponsor radio programs in Ethiopia and Kenya, saying the church owed the radio company $728,000.

The shrunken insurance defense firm Moser & Marsalek filed for bankruptcy Monday, four months after its landlord sued over unpaid rent on its downtown St. Louis office.

A federal jury decided last week that St. Louis entrepreneur Dave Barton, along with the software programmer, owned software his company used.

The U.S. District Court in St. Louis is gearing up for an influx of Saint Louis University law students downtown.