There are several things you might expect to see when you pull up to a drive-thru window at a fast-food restaurant.
Read More »Sex crimes and sick kids
Sex crimes and sick kids, these are what have been occupying my time the past week.
Read More »Race to the high court for ‘Obamacare’ suits
If each of the 20 or more federal court challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Act is in a race to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is more likely to get there first?
Read More »Republican activists choke U.S. courts
The Republican wave that swept through Congress has House victors declaring they’ll kill Obamacare, slash spending, ease up on Wall Street reform and crank out subpoenas to delve deep into administration misdeeds.
Read More »Halliburton’s cement may seal fate
Halliburton Co. probably meant no irony when it named its annual report last year, “Pushing Boundaries.”
Read More »Election results: The middle strikes back
I’m a lot like Martin Scorsese, I think.
Read More »The law and ethics of ‘pretexting’
In today’s parlance, “pretexting” means employing some kind of ruse or deception to obtain information or to achieve a desired result.
Read More »Voters pop emergency chute
Ballots are delivered to the Board of Election Commissioners headquarters in downtown St. Louis Tuesday night by police car. Jerry Layton, shown here, is among the workers accepting them.
Read More »Stop the madness: 4-year-old sued
This one’s not going to help.
Read More »Lenders should get what’s due them
A distressed U.S. homeowner with a temporarily modified mortgage made every payment on time for 13 months. That’s 10 months past the standard three-month trial period, but the servicer was predicting a permanent modification, so the homeowner kept paying.
Read More »Lawyer gets nabbed for plagiarism
In today’s world of copy and paste, it’s a wonder that more lawyers aren’t caught using the words of another without proper attribution.
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