An investment banker will pay $850,000 as the last settlement involving lawsuits over bonding for a failed Missouri sweetener factory, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander announced Monday. Kander said the consent decree involving Memphis, Tennessee-based Morgan Keegan & Co., ...
Read More »Legislatures consider special protections for gun industry
A terse letter from Andrew Clyde’s credit card-processing company explained it was discontinuing his corporate account because his Georgia firearms business “no longer met our underwriting guidelines.” In a panic, Clyde called three other companies, which denied him, too. After ...
Read More »Prescription drug database up again in Missouri House
As opioid overdoses increasingly draw attention in Congress and statehouses across the U.S., Missouri lawmakers are again considering a proposal for a prescription monitoring program that would bring the state in line with all others. Missouri is the only state ...
Read More »Missouri Senate debates repealing death penalty
The Republican-led Missouri Senate for the first time in years debated a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty, though the measure is unlikely to advance. A bipartisan group of lawmakers to implored their colleagues Monday to end capital punishment. ...
Read More »Crouppen calls out Kroenke in Super Bowl ad
In stark contrast to sentimental ads from the NFL repeating the tagline “NFL is family” that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday, viewers in the St. Louis area also saw a harsh criticism of the league from local attorney ...
Read More »After suicide attempt, Missouri lawmaker speaks out
Missouri state Rep. Genise Montecillo said nothing publicly for more than six months about the June day she tried to kill herself. Montecillo wanted to keep that a secret, like the emotional abuse and neglect she said she suffered as ...
Read More »Missouri defends law capping cities’ traffic ticket revenue
A new Missouri law overhauling the state’s municipal courts and police departments violates the separation of powers, defies the state constitution’s limits on unfunded mandates and unfairly singles out the St. Louis area, an attorney representing 12 St. Louis County ...
Read More »In Obama’s final year, Senate is slow to act on his nominees
If you wear combat fatigues to work, then your nomination is almost sure to sail through the Senate. If not, you’re likely in for a long wait. In just a week, senators confirmed Army Lt. Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson ...
Read More »Judge’s order strikes down Nebraska ban on gay marriage
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction striking down Nebraska’s now-negated constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions. The injunction, issued Thursday, was largely a formality because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June that legalized gay ...
Read More »Iowa court ruling makes defense attorney malpractice suits easier
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a man who pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex but later had the conviction overturned can sue his defense attorney for legal malpractice without being required to prove he’s innocent. In ...
Read More »Missouri considers easing adoptee birth certificate access
Danika Donatti first met her biological father when he was in hospice dying from complications of a disease she might also carry. Donatti, 18, was adopted shortly after birth. She has known the names of her biological parents since childhood, ...
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