Kansas City attorney Judy Heeter will be honored with the Sean O’Brien Freedom Award for her work with The Midwest Innocence Project, according to a news release.
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Read More »Kansas City attorney Judy Heeter will be honored with the Sean O’Brien Freedom Award for her work with The Midwest Innocence Project, according to a news release.
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Read More »A criminal prosecution of Sen. Bob Menendez would represent a major test for a Justice Department anti-corruption unit that recently scored the conviction of a former Virginia governor, but endured humbling setbacks in cases against two former U.S. senators.
Read More »Hotel owner Munir Ahmad Chaudary was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison in a federal case that highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s prosecutorial shift away from workplace immigration raids to targeting employers who knowingly hire people who are not in the U.S. legally to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
Read More »Speakers targeted what they viewed as attorney conflicts at a Missouri Senate committee hearing Monday addressing the ailments of the state’s municipal court system.
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Read More »The Supreme Court reassigned Judge Roy Richter, of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, to St. Louis County Circuit Court to hear all of Ferguson’s pending and future municipal division cases. (Updated)
Read More »It’s sad to say goodbye in this my final column. Even so, it’s still a happy ending because we leave for the right reasons and because we leave you in excellent hands.
Read More »Ferguson city leaders will meet with Justice Department officials in about two weeks and provide a plan for ways to improve the police department following a scathing report released this week, Mayor James Knowles III said Friday.
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Read More »A jury awarded $490 million total in a high-stakes trial that featured testimony from federal inmates and a former banker.
Read More »Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Friday that the practices of the Ferguson Municipal Court threaten to undermine the public’s trust in the court system as a whole.
Read More »An aide to former U.S. Sen. John Danforth said last week that she was on the phone with Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich — discussing his angst over perceived rumors about his religion — just moments before he killed himself.
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Read More »Don Prophete, a founding partner of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart's Kansas City office who moved to Littler Mendelson in 2013, is now a name partner at the Kansas City office of Constangy, Brooks & Smith.
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