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Two home developers who asserted claims against a city for ballpark lights that shined into neighborhood homes they developed will have a second chance to state the proper claim of relief in their case. In George Ward Builders, Inc. and ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert D. Martin held on Sept. 29 that, where a marital settlement agreement classified marital debts as being part of the financial support settlement, rather than the property settlement, the debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Mark ...

Jane Dueker, chief of staff for Gov. Bob Holden, is rejoining Stinson Morrison Hecker L.L.P. in its St. Louis office. Her resignation was effective Nov. 30. Dueker, the first woman to hold the position of chief legal counsel to a ...

An employment discrimination claim based on political affiliations failed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit last Wednesday, not because the employee was from the same party as his employer but because he did not have proof. ...

Citibank’s inability to prove what a man bought with his credit card proved to be a costly mistake as the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, reversed a judgment for more than $5,000 when the trial court record turned up ...

Mortgage applications have declined in the fourth quarter and reflect a seasonal pattern and overall slowdown according to the latest mortgage application survey released last week by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The MBA Market Composite Index — a measure of ...

A circuit court erred in awarding $2,500 to a father for litigation expenses, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled, remanding and entering a new judgment for expenses owed to the father. In Dorothy C. Kulaga (Ebrite), ...

Even though the police lied to the petitioner by telling him an accomplice confessed to a crime involving the robbery and death of an 88-year-old man, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York determined the petitioner’s ...

In the world of professional football, a disputed call is oftentimes cleared up with the use of instant replay. If only it were that simple in the world of construction. When you take the sometimes-competing interests of owners, general contractors, ...

The failure of a criminal defendant’s attorney to impeach three witnesses to a fatal stabbing about how their trial testimony contradicted earlier statements to police prejudiced the defendant, who had been sentenced to death for the crime. On Tuesday, a ...

A child molester won a reduced sentence after successfully arguing to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, that his prison term was excessive because the trial court failed to take into account amended sodomy statutes enacted before the trial ...