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“It’s kind of like a tug of war – the other side lets go unexpectedly so you fall backwards,” described Richard Zalasky, an attorney for an injured railroad switchman who recently received a $1.6 million award from a St. Louis ...

A bankruptcy case involving George Harrison’s former manager was reversed and remanded to the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In Denis J. O’Brien, Debtor Nicholas Valner ...

Alleged lies and drug addiction may pose a roadblock for a Minnesota dentist attempting to collect long-term disability benefits from her insurance company. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court decision on Tuesday denying an insurance ...

A convincing upswing in the economy and refinancing rates as low as 3.9 percent are credited with a decline in mortgage delinquencies during the third quarter despite an increase in new foreclosures during the same time period. According to Mortgage ...

On the Friday morning of finals week, the student lounge at the University of Missouri Kansas City School Of Law hums with the sound of students gathered around octagon-shaped tables. Upon first glance, one might not notice anything spectacular about ...

The scales balanced one more time in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it ordered both parties of a civil suit to note the American Rule and pay their own way. A partial grant of summary judgment will ...

Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has prefiled a bill targeting the bank accounts of drug dealers in Missouri. The act requires drug dealers to pay a stamp tax on each gram of illegal drugs in their possession. The stamps would ...

Lawyers have the power to heal. American Bar Association President Dennis Archer told more than 600 Members of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association that they can be healers of pain in society, at the 119th Annual Meeting at the ...

Managing partners of 26 Kansas City Metropolitan law firms signed a commitment to increase diversity in their firms. “This is no small task,” American Bar Association President Dennis Archer challenged the group gathered at the Downtown Marriott Muehlebach Hotel as ...

The Missouri Supreme Court may have put a halt on the membership expansion of an employees-only credit union to encompass an entire area code after grumbles from area banks led to some hefty statutory interpretations. Despite a ruling by a ...

An agreement to arbitrate included in a vehicle service plan was not unconscionable and is enforceable, but the requirement that the arbitration take place in Arkansas is unconscionable, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said Tuesday. The appellate court’s ...