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A Clay County jury has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the latest case against a Kansas City area car dealer to reach trial out of more than 200 pending cases. The trial wrapped up Friday at the courthouse in Liberty, with the jury awarding David and Diana Heckadon about $4,290 in actual damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.

A federal judge has given final approval to a $1 million class action settlement involving a mortgage broker. Nicole and Alexander Glen had sued Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. in St. Charles County Circuit Court in 2007, and the defendant moved the case to federal court the following year.

Missouri Bar President-Elect Lynn Ann Vogel and her husband, Paul, have asked a federal judge to dismiss the claims made against them in an investors’ lawsuit over an alleged Ponzi scheme. Investors sued lawyer and cleric Martin Sigillito last year, alleging he scammed them out of tens of millions of dollars they thought they were investing in British real estate.

St. Louis lawyer and cleric Martin Sigillito turned himself in to authorities Wednesday following a federal grand jury indictment. Sigillito faces multiple charges, including numerous counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors say the scheme cheated people out of $52 million.

A jury in Franklin County has returned a $28 million punitive award in a fatal plane crash suit, bringing the total verdict to $48 million.

A jury in Franklin County has returned a $20 million verdict in a lawsuit over a fatal plane crash. The verdict reached Tuesday amounts to $4 million for each of five families of people who died in the 2006 crash, said a court clerk and a plaintiff attorney. The details aren’t in the court file yet. The verdict is against defendant Doncasters Inc., which made a part of the airplane engine.

A couple of cabdrivers are challenging as illegal a $3 fee they must pay to pick up fares at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. They’re seeking class action status to include other cabdrivers and taxi passengers in the litigation. The suit estimates that taxis overall handle 400 trips a day on average at the airport and seeks more than $7 million in damages.

A federal jury has sided with a fast-food restaurant in a dispute over spilled hot coffee. Timothy Person Sr. filed a lawsuit after he was injured in 2008 at a White Castle restaurant drive-through window in St. Louis.

A federal trial is under way in St. Louis over hot spilled coffee. Timothy Person Sr. sued after a 2008 incident at a city White Castle restaurant drive-through window.

A bill on its way to Gov. Jay Nixon makes a number of changes in the state’s employment discrimination law, making it harder for fired workers to win in court.

The state Supreme Court has upheld Gregory Bowman’s conviction in the 1977 killing of a 16-year-old girl but ordered a new sentencing.