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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world’s biggest securities firm by market value, asked a U.S. judge to reject a legal claim by Enron Corp. that Goldman claims would roil the trillion-dollar commercial paper market. Enron claims commercial paper — unsecured, ...

Local company sued Major League Baseball over use of players

Plaintiff’s attorney Grant Davis in court Monday for jury selection in his client’s suit against ex-Blues hockey player Rob Ramage. Photo by Karen Elshout The trial of former St. Louis Blues hockey player Rob Ramage began in St. Louis County ...

Achieving a balanced budget next year in Jackson County will result in “drastic cuts” for the courts, according to its presiding judge. Included in the budget announced Nov. 15 by County Executive Mike Sanders was more than eight months of ...

F.M. Chris Rey shows off a spy camera in his south St. Louis County office. The private investigator supports a new state law that will require him and his colleagues to be licensed with the state. Photo by Karen Elshout ...

Settlements usually save defendants money. But in one recent case, an 11th-hour deal landed a Kansas City plaintiff four times as much as a jury had been prepared to give. Seldon Turnbull, who was involved a 2006 car wreck, picked ...

Attorneys Larry Mass and Barry Haith shared a similar experience when each learned his newborn child had Down syndrome — they were overwhelmed. “I didn’t know how to act,” Mass said about the birth of his daughter Paula, now 24. ...

BOSTON — Plaintiffs’ lawyers are hailing a settlement earlier this month with Merck & Co. that resolved the majority of claims over injuries linked to its painkiller Vioxx. Without admitting wrongdoing, the Whitehouse Station, N.J. pharmaceutical company agreed to pay ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a capital habeas corpus case arising from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Arave v. Hoffman, 07-110. The primary issue to be decided, as framed by the Supreme ...

Washington Mutual Inc. got what it wanted in 2005: A revised bankruptcy code that no longer lets people walk away from credit card bills. The largest U.S. savings and loan didn’t count on a housing recession. The new bankruptcy laws ...

Jeffrey J. Lowe graduated law school in 1985 and has been practicing as a personal injury lawyer exclusively since 1991. On Jan. 1, 2004, he formed the Lowe Law Firm and focuses his practice in the personal injury area, including ...