Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won’t be extorted or give in to threats. Rosenstein, speaking at a ...
Read More »Judge: Confide lawsuit against Greitens can proceed
A Missouri judge is allowing a lawsuit regarding use of a message-deleting app by Gov. Eric Greitens’ office to move forward, despite efforts by Greitens’ attorneys to get the case tossed out. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem on Monday ...
Read More »Court hears Zahnd disciplinary case
Missouri Supreme Court arguments in the case of Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric G. Zahnd quickly touched on a key defense: that Zahnd’s actions of publicly naming and criticizing prominent community members for their support of a man convicted of ...
Read More »Former Rep. Steve Brown regains law license
The Missouri Supreme Court has restored the law license of a former state representative who lost it during a political scandal in 2009. Steve Brown, a Democrat elected to a St. Louis County seat in 2008, surrendered his law license ...
Read More »Missouri House passes bill altering parole hearings
The Missouri House has voted to no longer allow inmates to object to the use of videoconferencing for parole hearings. The bill, approved Monday in a 114-33 vote, would still allow victims or victims’ families to object to videoconferencing if ...
Read More »Failed US Senate candidate Moore: New suit against accusers
Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama filed a new lawsuit Monday against some of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, claiming they were part of a “political conspiracy” to derail his 2017 campaign. Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, ...
Read More »Greitens’ attorneys seek to prohibit key witness’ testimony
With two weeks to go before Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is scheduled to go to trial on felony invasion of privacy, his attorneys are asking a judge to prohibit testimony from the pivotal witness — the woman involved in an ...
Read More »Convicting America’s Dad: Inside the Bill Cosby prosecution
In the tense moments before a jury convicted Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the prosecutor who had branded him a “con man” and called him out for laughing during closing arguments started to worry about the global implications if the ...
Read More »Supreme Court to hear Google class-action settlement case
The Supreme Court has agreed to review the settlement of a class-action lawsuit involving Google, where the settlement agreement largely directed money to organizations rather than search-engine users. The court agreed Monday to take the case. The lawsuit involves Google ...
Read More »DeLorean widow sues for ‘Back to the Future’ payments
The widow of maverick automaker John DeLorean has alleged in a lawsuit that a Texas company illegally received money from the “Back to the Future” movies that used his iconic car. The sleek, angular car with gull-wing doors known simply ...
Read More »Robertson, Kempton aiding committee investigating Greitens
A House committee investigating allegations against Gov. Eric Greitens has hired former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward “Chip” Robertson Jr. and Sedalia attorney Mark Kempton as special counsel. “Judge Robertson provides experience and knowledge to our committee as we ...
Read More »