The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to struggle with the question of whether the silence of a suspect who has neither been arrested nor placed in police custody can later be used against him at trial.
Read More »Legal aid organizations divvy up $800k award
Four Missouri legal aid organizations have split up an award of nearly $800,000 in unclaimed money from a class action settlement.
Read More »UPDATE: Supreme Court voids many warrantless blood draws in Mo. case
Police must obtain a search warrant in many cases to draw blood to get evidence of drunken driving, the U.S. Supreme Court said today in a divided opinion in a case involving a Missouri man.
Read More »Court weighs secrecy in drug-dilution settlement
A group of former plaintiffs in Kansas City’s drug dilution litigation is urging an appeals court to shed light on their fight to overturn the case’s settlement.
Read More »Stolar partner Rowe joins The Lowenbaum Partnership
Susan Nell Rowe, a partner with the dissolving firm The Stolar Partnership, has landed at a new firm.
Read More »Schnuck Markets sued in massive info leak
Customers have filed two suits against Schnuck Markets Inc. after a rash of credit and debit card information security breaches.
Read More »Attorneys runnning in Boston Marathon appear safe
Two attorneys from St. Louis and one from Kansas City, among those running in the Boston Marathon, are safe after a pair of explosions reportedly killed at least two people and injured 28 at the finish line this afternoon.
Read More »Solutions sought for H-1B visa logjam
As lawmakers prepare to debate immigration reform, employment lawyers are hoping for a solution to the persistent bottleneck in the visa program for highly skilled workers that they say hurts their clients.
Read More »Toobin points to politics beneath the robes
For those who think the U.S. Supreme Court is too political, Jeffrey Toobin has essentially the same answer that Justice Antonin Scalia has for those still upset about Bush v. Gore: Get over it.
Read More »Former KC-area attorney pleads guilty to fraud charges
H. Kent Desselle’s charges stem partly from his work on a high-profile fund he set up in remembrance of two murdered children.
Read More »Trustee has no duty to investigate borrowers’ claims
A trustee in a foreclosure proceeding has no duty to investigate potential irregularities unless it has actual knowledge of anything that should legally prevent the foreclosure, a state appeals court said Tuesday.
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