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The Federal Bureau of Investigation last week announced legal action against 205 individuals, including four from Missouri, in the largest single real estate financing fraud sting in the agency’s history. With the implementation of Operation Continued Action this summer, 158 ...

The wife of a man who slipped off a boat and drowned in the Mississippi River may bring her strict-liability claim against the boat manufacturer, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, held last Tuesday. The decision coming much to ...

Federal prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys have just received some much-needed guidance from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on how that court will deal with criminal appeals involving issues related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United ...

Judge Richard Sheppard Arnold, senior judge of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 23, from complications of lymphoma. He was 68 years old. A fixture on the 8th Circuit, Arnold took senior status in ...

The Supreme Court decision in Blakely v. Washington represented such a sea change in sentencing law that no defendant can be deemed to have waived a challenge to his sentence on Blakely grounds, the Seventh Circuit held on Sept. 14. ...

An apprentice is not a journeyman and cannot be counted as such when setting the prevailing wage rate in Missouri, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday, affirming the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission’s calculations of the ...

In its latest move to head off a practice viewed as threatening for many construction professionals, the Associate General Contractors has launched an online resource center where members across the nation can find official statements and research material that back ...

John P. McNearney, a partner with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in St. Louis, has been tapped to lead the American Bar Association Real Property Section’s Workout, Foreclosures and Bankruptcy Committee as its chair for the next year. The committee’s focus ...

After a year of serving as a board member of the Public Water Supply District No. 1 in Butler County, Mo., Thomas A. Wright can rest assured that his position is secure from any further legal action from the defeated ...

It wasn’t the landlord’s fault a witness called on behalf of a tenant didn’t prove the tenant’s defense, Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, held on Tuesday, because the tenant never objected to the witness’s insufficient evidence at trial. The ...

Members of The Missouri Bar will have a chance to examine two important milestones in American history at their yearly meeting in St. Louis on Friday, Oct. 1, at the Renaissance Grand Hotel. From 10 a.m. until noon a distinguished ...