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Clayton High School students walk to class last week down a stairwell. The School District of Clayton is among those that sued the state over how it funds schools. Photo by Karen Elshout An element of Missouri’s school funding case ...

A Blue Springs business picked up a rare defense verdict last week in a lawsuit alleging age discrimination under the Missouri Human Rights Act. Meyer Laboratory, which manufactures and sells industrial cleaning supplies and chemicals, survived a claim that it ...

The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School hosted a forum last Thursday featuring two legal scholars with very different views about the future of the Nonpartisan Court Plan. Law professor William Eckhardt endorsed reform of the current plan, calling for ...

Canadian civil law allowed the late Keith Magnuson’s family what U.S. law would not — millions from a rental car company that would owe nothing had his accident occurred in the United States. A St. Louis County jury deliberated for ...

Two former General Reinsurance Corp. executives may argue at their trial that contracts they arranged with American International Group Inc. didn’t defraud investors because their boss, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, knew what they were doing, defense lawyers said. General Re’s ...

A jury has solidly rejected Metro’s claims against the contractors on the Shrewsbury extension — a project that came in vastly overdue and over budget — instead finding the contractors were owed money. The 12 jurors issued a sweeping victory ...

Call it the Holy Grail of probate court. The probate division of St. Louis Circuit Court recently unearthed a record book that documents when explorer William Clark assumed guardianship of Sacagawea’s baby daughter and 10-year-old half-brother. The book, known as ...

Applications are now being accepted for the St. Louis Circuit Court position being vacated by Judge Joan Burger. Burger, who was on the bench about 13 years, has announced she would retire Jan. 11. The 22nd Judicial Circuit Commission is ...

A multi-million dollar defeat more than a year ago for the some of the country’s leading meat producers will not keep them from going to trial again in similar case now under way in Jackson County. ContiGroup Companies and Premium ...

Scottrade Inc. sued to block Modern Energy Corp.’s mandatory 1-for-1,000 common-share exchange, which has left the online brokerage in a “short” position requiring it to buy 83 percent of Modern Energy’s stock. Modern Energy’s mandatory exchange wasn’t authorized by its ...

Kansas City-based Aquila Inc. won final approval of a $10.5 million settlement of claims that officials at the utility owner mishandled an employee retirement-investment plan. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple in Kansas City, on Friday approved the accord, which resolves ...