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Interstate can’t impose separate deadline for financing plan A bankruptcy judge told Interstate Bakeries Corp. by return mail it couldn’t accelerate the time for the Teamsters union and Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos. to file their proposed plan. On Dec. 21, ...

Leaders in the state’s public defender system have pleaded for years for more staff and better pay. But in 2007, the issue came to a head, and the results could start playing out early in the new year. Members of ...

The chilly November afternoon when a St. Louis County jury handed down its verdict in the Metro fraud case was a moment of elation and deflation. Elation for the four engineering firms that successfully defended Metro’s claims of fraud and ...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at forcing transportation officials to keep a stretch of Highway 40 open. The suit was filed last week by Bill Haas, a former member of the St. Louis School Board who also ...

The dispute over whether death by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is about to be played out before the nation’s highest court. And the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will resolve the controversy that gained traction in ...

Get it while it’s hot! That’s an appropriate pitch for the newest concept in liability land: global-warming insurance, which may be coming soon to a brokerage near you. At heart are several lawsuits being pursued across the country, each alleging ...

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Gov. Matt Blunt announced on Sunday his decision to pardon six people who long ago were convicted of nonviolent felonies and have been law-abiding citizens since completing their sentences. Noting the offenders have paid for their mistakes, Blunt said, “It ...

The dispute over whether death by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is about to be played out before the nation’s highest court. And the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will resolve the controversy that gained traction in ...

This time last year the St. Louis legal community could talk about little else but a controversial book that St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr. wrote with intentions to expose the liberal subversion of the U.S. judicial system. ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth and U.S. Attorney John Wood discuss Lisa Montgomery’s death sentence at a press conference on Oct. 26. Photo by Scott Lauck In the court system, three years is a reasonable period of time in which ...