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A new House initiative expected to catapult voter rights issues and judicial politics into the limelight has created yet another partisan stir. Led by a team of House Republicans, HJR50 could send the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan to the forefront ...

The National Association of Realtors took an official stand opposing a new rule by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency during hearings last week before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs. NAR President Walt ...

Joining the ranks of lawyers and religious clergy, domestic violence shelters hold the right to protect confidentiality of their residents, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday – even in instances of suspected child abuse and neglect. The decision came ...

A nursing care cost miscalculation could allow a severely ailing man to collect additional workers’ compensation awards, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, found on Tuesday in an opinion that also reduced employer payments on a wheelchair-accessible van. Seri ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association issued an informational alert last week concerning the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, which went into effect March 31. The FACT Act, which was passed by Congress late last year, has reauthorized pre-emption provisions for ...

A murder defendant’s lawyer may have erred by failing to provide witnesses in defense, ruled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, finding the trial attorney could have used two statutes to secure the witnesses for trial and ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a civil conspiracy case brought by William J. Federer against Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, Joyce A. Aboussie and James A. Larrew as well as several unnamed defendants. In ...

The Missouri/Southern Illinois Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently announced its officers for 2004. Two of the new officers are Illinois attorneys. Serving as president will be attorney Martin K. Morrissey of Reed, Armstrong, Gorman, Mudge and ...

The upswing in the economy is making its way into the legal community, a survey by Robert Half Legal shows, as law firms predict adding more staff during the coming 12 months. The survey revealed that 62 percent of the ...

Where three prison inmates alleged that the conditions of their workplace violated certain safety and health standards, was there sufficient evidence to support their claim under the Eighth Amendment? In dismissing the inmates’ claim in Wooten, et al. v. Goord, ...

St. Louis attorneys Linda Martinez and Kathleen Schoene and university administrator Betty Van Umm were honored at the 2004 Daily Record Women’s Justice Awards celebration, held Thursday night at the Starlight Roof of the Chase Park Plaza. Martinez, a partner ...