A trial focused on the federal government’s management policy for the Missouri River started Monday in Kansas City. The suit was filed in 2014 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington. The plaintiffs include more than 300 landowners ...
Read More »No damages awarded in talc case
The streak of multi-million dollar verdicts in talc cases against Johnson & Johnson ended Friday when a St. Louis jury sided 11-1 with the company. The plaintiff alleged her ovarian cancer was caused by genital use of talcum powder found ...
Read More »Panel selects nominees for open judgeships in St. Louis County
A commission has selected two groups of three nominees to fill associate circuit judge vacancies in St. Louis County. The nominees to replace Dale W. Hood are Renee Hardin-Tammons, Colleen J. Vetter and Nicole S. Zellweger. Hardin-Tammons is currently a ...
Read More »Supreme Court commission solicits public input
The Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial & Ethnic Fairness held its second in a series of four feedback sessions Tuesday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. The group, established in 2015 by Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge, ...
Read More »St. Louis airport could soon get booze-to-go policy
It could soon be legal for travelers to take booze from the bar to their gate at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. The House just passed a bill that changes liquor laws in airports, allowing people to order alcoholic ...
Read More »GPS device-maker Garmin reeling after Kansas worker killed
GPS device-maker Garmin long has revered diversity in its workforce, even when the locale of its ever-sprawling operational headquarters — a largely white Kansas City suburb — didn’t reflect it. It’s the place 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla came to work a ...
Read More »Stealing charges filed against St. Louis lawyer
The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office filed stealing charges Thursday against attorney Scott Ehlermann over accusations that he took a court document in an adult abuse case. Ehlermann was the respondent in the case filed with St. Louis County Circuit ...
Read More »Headstones toppled at Jewish cemetery in St. Louis area
Vandals have damaged or tipped over as many as 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in suburban St. Louis, leaving the region’s Jewish community shaken and anxious. No arrests have been made in attacks that happened late Sunday or early ...
Read More »Drug-test error ends in $15k verdict against Concentra
An Odessa man whose prior positive drug test was mistakenly given to a new employer and claimed the incident led to his firing was awarded a $15,000 jury verdict Friday. James Blum sued the occupational health company Concentra Health Services ...
Read More »Former AG Koster to join Centene
Former Missouri Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster is joining St. Louis-based Centene Corp. Koster will become its senior vice president of corporate services, the company announced Monday. “I am honored to join a team of individuals who every ...
Read More »Monsanto facing class action suit over dicamba spraying
Missouri attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit against Monsanto claiming the company sold seeds without a safe corresponding herbicide, forcing farmers to spray illegal chemicals that drifted onto other farms and destroyed crops. The complaint alleges that Monsanto marketed ...
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