One of the grand jurors from Officer Darren Wilson’s case filed a lawsuit Monday against St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, claiming that laws barring him from talking about his experiences on the grand jury are unconstitutional.
Read More »Fatal crash of semi and scooter settles confidentially
Two sets of plaintiff’s attorneys worked out a fee split before a judge approved a settlement of a case over the death of a St. Louis County man in a traffic accident.
Read More »$250,000 settlement in Missouri inmate’s death
The mother of a man who died in a southwest Missouri jail after being strapped into a restraint chair for several hours has settled her lawsuit against Jasper County and other defendants.
Read More »Indigent defense idea to get first test in U.S.
The issue of trust has long been part of a larger discussion about the quality of indigent defense in the U.S. Now, a Central Texas county will be the first in the country to give these individuals the ability to choose their own attorneys at the government’s expense.
Read More »Appeals court rules against KKK in leafleting suit
The American Civil Liberties Union is appealing a ruling that prohibits the Ku Klux Klan from leafleting in the streets of a small southeast Missouri town.
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court takes case, but plaintiff missing
The Supreme Court agrees to take less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 petitions it receives every year, but it was even rarer for the court to take a case like this one. But since the court agreed to take the case, the plaintiff hasn’t surfaced.
Read More »Missouri lawmakers uncertain about budget powers
Missouri voters recently gave lawmakers more power over state spending decisions. Yet there's uncertainty at the Missouri Capitol over whether it's OK for lawmakers to actually start using those new powers.
Read More »Koch CEO vows to take on criminal justice system reform
Billionaire Koch Industries leader Charles Koch has vowed to step up his efforts to reform a legal system that he said has too many laws and too many prosecutions of nonviolent offenders.
Read More »Gay marriage cases teed up for justices’ action
Gay marriage cases are on the Supreme Court's agenda with enough time for the issue to be argued and decided by late June.
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Read More »Church-based institutions ponder same-sex benefits
Universities, charities and hospitals affiliated with churches that oppose same-sex marriage are facing the thorny question of whether they have an obligation — morally or legally — to extend health care benefits to spouses of gay and lesbian employees in states where they now are allowed to marry.
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Read More »Court heaps grief on vaccine victims, makes them wait years
A system Congress established to speed help to Americans harmed by vaccines has instead heaped additional suffering on thousands of families, The Associated Press has found.
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