The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor. The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed ...
Read More »Experts: Travel ruling could boost other immigration suits
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban may have a silver lining for people fighting other administration immigration policies after the 5-4 majority ruled that the president’s prior comments about Muslims were not off limits when ...
Read More »Court remands public-defender case for hearing
The Jackson County Public Defender’s Office will get the chance to make its case, again, that two of its public defenders are unable to accept new cases and continue to provide effective assistance of counsel to existing clients. One key ...
Read More »Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority. A dissenting justice said the outcome was a historic ...
Read More »Supreme Court voids part of law regarding crisis-pregnancy centers
The Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis-pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution. The 5-4 ruling Tuesday also casts doubts on similar laws in Hawaii and Illinois. The California law took effect ...
Read More »US judge throws out climate-change lawsuits against big oil
A U.S. judge who held a hearing about climate change that received widespread attention ruled Monday that Congress and the president were best suited to address the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming, throwing out lawsuits that sought to ...
Read More »Missouri continues survey of untested rape kits
The almost 4,890 Missouri rape kits sitting in police evidence lockers or hospital storage likely represent only a fraction of the untested evidence across the state, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. Fewer than half of the law-enforcement agencies ...
Read More »Leader of House review of Greitens to file ethics complaint
The chairman of a Missouri House committee investigating former Gov. Eric Greitens said Monday that the lawmakers no longer have the authority to act now that Greitens has resigned, however, the lawmaker pledged to file an ethics complaint in hopes ...
Read More »Supreme Court rules in credit-card case, passes on florist question
The Supreme Court handed American Express a win Monday in a lawsuit regarding rules it imposes on merchants who accept its cards. Under their contracts, merchants who accept American Express generally can’t encourage customers to use other credit cards, even ...
Read More »Buzz Aldrin sues children, alleging misuse of his finances
Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is suing two of his children and a former business manager, accusing them of misusing his credit cards, transferring money from an account and slandering him by saying he has dementia. Aldrin’s lawsuit filed earlier ...
Read More »Supreme Court declines to hear ‘Making a Murderer’ case
The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t weigh in on the case of a teenager convicted of rape and murder whose story was documented in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” As is typical, the justices did not explain their ...
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