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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for flooding along the Missouri River that damaged property in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Judge Nancy B. Firestone’s 259-page opinion, issued four years ...

Lawyers in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Syngenta regarding the company’s use of genetically modified corn have proposed a $1.51 billion global settlement. U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum of the District of Kansas has been asked to preliminarily approve ...

The Missouri House on Thursday approved a bill that backers say would require more transparency in asbestos litigation. The bill, approved 96-48, now heads to the Senate. Under the bill, plaintiffs in asbestos cases would have to disclose the existence ...

St. Louis law firm Thompson Coburn cannot be sued for its alleged role in the Martin Sigillito Ponzi scheme because the statute of limitations has run out, the Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled on Tuesday. Sigillito was a St. ...

The Missouri Supreme Court once again is considering whether a series of mass tort cases can be tried in St. Louis. The court on Tuesday heard three cases back-to-back that examine the delicate interplay between the court’s rules on joinder ...

Missouri’s biggest law firm is getting bigger. Partners from St. Louis-based Bryan Cave and London-based Berwin Leighton Paisner announced Monday that they will merge into a “global, fully integrated law firm” known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. The merger ...

An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $1.1 million jury verdict for a Missouri corrections officer who said she faced retaliation for reporting sexual harassment by a co-worker and a supervisor. Janet Mignone sued the Missouri Department of Corrections in ...

The Kansas City law firm of Robb & Robb reached a $100 million settlement for a flight nurse who was severely burned in a medical helicopter crash in Colorado. Anita Porte Robb said the settlement, announced Thursday, appears to be ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday agreed that an ambulance was not at fault for an accident that occurred after it went through an intersection with its lights and sirens activated. Annie Rayman had sued Abbott Ambulance for negligence, ...

Last year, Gov. Eric Greitens used his first-ever state of the state speech to insult trial lawyers and vow to overhaul Missouri’s tort laws. A year later, the subject got hardly a peep. Greitens, a Republican in his second year ...

The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing what to do with a lawyer who lied for more than five years to a client after failing to file his lawsuit. Jonathan D. Valentino, formerly of Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis, was assigned ...