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Expenses associated with the holiday season often cause many homeowners to consider how they can adjust their spending in the following year. And with a significant increase in the costs of home insurance during the past 12 months, real estate ...

What constitutes a valid preliminary and limited inventory search at the scene of a vehicle stop? This was the central issue before New York State’s highest court in the People v. James Johnson. The defendant was charged with driving with ...

A trial court’s decision to allot a wife $2,060 a month for child support until January 2003 and then $1,757 a month was upheld, but the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District remanded the amount of money the ...

A hospital found vicariously liable for injuries sustained to a patient may not invoke an offensive collateral estoppel tactic in establishing indemnity claims, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said in a reversed opinion Tuesday. “The hospital may sue ...

Joseph Miles of House Springs would like to be able to drive again. Beginning in 2002, the Missouri Department of Revenue issued a 10-year minimum denial on his driving privileges. “It’s a monstrous impediment to human life,” says Miles’ attorney, ...

The value of a car, listed as collateral in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy case, should be its liquidation price which was determined on the date of the trial hearing. In re: Robert Roy Podnar and Evelyn Sue Podnar, a case ...

A report released earlier this month by Grubb & Ellis shows that the year of increased office vacancies in this sector of the commercial real estate market has stabilized and is expected to improve further into 2004. During the third ...

Symantec Corp., an anti-virus software maker, said Monday that the United States District Court for Central District of California Western Division has awarded the company a $3 million judgment against Linthicum-based Maryland Internet Marketing Inc. for selling counterfeit Symantec software. ...

Grandparents have the right to unsupervised visits with their deceased son’s child, but the mother of the child does not have to pay their attorney fees, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District has ruled. In Abe Corley ...

Distinguished jurists will join communications lawyers and academics to discuss hot-button issues facing the news media and their lawyers during the two-day meeting at the 9th Annual ABA Forum on Communications Law Conference, January 22-24 at the Boca Raton Resort ...

When a husband accused his wife of neglecting and abusing their children, the Circuit Court should have appointed a guardian to investigate the allegations, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District in a reversed and remanded decision. ...