A federal judge’s preliminary approval Thursday puts the Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill in the St. Louis area on the hook for nearly $7 million in compensation for the smell coming from a fire in the landfill.
Read More »Florida judge rules against Missouri liquor distributor
Bacardi USA was within its rights when it terminated a decades-old relationship with Missouri distributor Major Brands, a federal judge in Florida ruled in granting partial summary judgment to Bacardi.
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Read More »SLU Law hosts U.S. Court of Appeals
Saint Louis University School of Law will host arguments before a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday morning.
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Read More »Missouri firms file class action suit against GM
Two Missouri firms have filed a consumer class action fraud suit against General Motors in relation to the recent recalls of GM vehicles with unsafe ignition switches.
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Read More »Veteran accused of keeping money solicited for Wounded Warrior Project
A 34-year-old St. Charles County man is accused of keeping for himself funds he claimed he was collecting for the Wounded Warrior Project.
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Read More »Jury awards former cop $7.5 million on harassment claims
A St. Louis jury Friday awarded a former city police officer $7.2 million in punitive damages and $300,000 in compensatory damages in her sexual harassment suit against the police department.
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Read More »First Kilroy’s tent collapse suit settles
Nearly two years after a sudden and severe thunderstorm destroyed a tent outside a bar in downtown St. Louis, the family of a man who died in the incident has settled with the bar and the company that owned the tent.
Read More »Missouri law schools gain in U.S. News rankings
Love them or hate them, they’re out again: U.S. News & World Report released its 2015 Best Law Schools rankings.
Read More »SLU Law clinic students keep water on for trailer park residents
The residents of Brookside Estates, a mobile home park in Jefferson County, say they paid their rent faithfully, so they were surprised to find out they were about to lose sewer and water service. But that’s what happened when their ...
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Read More »Sierra Club sues Ameren, alleging Clean Air violations
The suit says the energy provider is violating state standards for air pollution at three coal-fired plants in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Read More »St. Louis attorney Norm London dies
Norman S. London, a St. Louis criminal defense attorney who left his high-profile practice to head the Federal Public Defenders Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, died Saturday from complications after a fall. He was 83.
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