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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 ...

Ford Motor Co., the second-biggest U.S. automaker, won reversal of a $60 million jury verdict awarded to the parents of a 17-year-old boy who was killed during a rollover of a 1996 Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicle. The parents of Lance ...

Feds will drop charges against Lou Sengheiser, civil suits still possible

After about 13 years on the bench, St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan M. Burger is retiring early next year. Burger said Thursday that she became eligible for retirement at the beginning of this year, and now is ready to step ...

Gov. Matt Blunt and Attorney General Jay Nixon may be forced to give back millions of dollars they raised in the first half of 2007, the Missouri Ethics Commission decided Thursday. After months of delay, the commission met in Jefferson ...

St. Louis officers legally searched homes, attorney says

After more than 20 hours of deliberations, a federal jury on Wednesday cleared a former county executive of Jackson County and her husband of mortgage fraud. Katheryn Shields, a former finalist for U.S. Attorney, and Philip Cardarella, a local lawyer, ...

Interstate Bakeries Corp. won court approval of a financing deal potentially funding its reorganization and establishing a process to let rival companies bid for the maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry W. Venters in Kansas City, ...

Sandra Messerly’s worst nightmare became reality on the afternoon of April 15, 2004. Her 19-month-old son, Foxx, wanted space to play in front of the family’s garage in Verona, Ky., but the Messerlys’ Nissan Xterra SUV was in the way. ...

After years of litigation, law firm Sidley Austin has settled a long-running suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that the firm discriminated against partners based on age. Now other firms across the country — especially those with ...

Supreme Court names new head of OSCA An Army reserve captain with significant legislative experience is the Missouri judiciary’s new state courts administrator. Greg Linhares will begin his job next year once the U.S. Army releases him his reserve duty ...