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Read More »Patent suits targeted as U.S. high court takes fee cases
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two appeals that would make it easier for targets of patent suits to collect attorneys’ fees.
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Read More »Taxes on severance payments draw U.S. Supreme Court review
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a case that may force the Treasury to give billions of dollars in refunds.
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Read More »Attorney in prepaid funeral fraud case disbarred
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted Howard Wittner’s (left, in picture) surrendering of his license and disbarred him.
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Read More »U.S. seeks delay of civil cases as federal shutdown begins
U.S. Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to delay civil cases as the government partially shuts down.
Read More »North Carolina sued by U.S. over new voting-law restrictions
The suit challenges the state’s voter-identification requirement and limits on early voting.
Read More »Appeals court partially upholds Creve Coeur red light cameras
The city of Creve Coeur has joined the ranks of municipalities whose red light cameras have been provisionally OK’d by the state Court of Appeals.
Read More »High court upholds gun charge for prior felon
Missouri Supreme Court ruling leaves a larger constitutional question concerning retrospective laws for another day.
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Read More »Supreme dream team takes on Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban
The legal team that successfully took challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s same-sex marriage ban to the U.S. Supreme Court has joined a challenge to Virginia’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
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Read More »BP fights to shrink spill estimate, damages
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is weighing whether the company’s actions in causing the April 20, 2010, blowout and subsequent spill reached the level of gross negligence.
Read More »Davenport leads Evans & Dixon expansion to Columbia
St. Louis-based Evans & Dixon has hired Aimee Davenport from Lathrop & Gage to head up its newly-opened office in Columbia.
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