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In August 2000, Charter Communications Inc. asked two suppliers to take part in what a pending lawsuit contends was a sham: a series of transactions whose only purpose was to deceive the cable company’s shareholders. The U.S. Supreme Court hears ...

Vonage Holdings Corp., the Internet phone-service provider, had its biggest single-day advance since going public last year after it settled one of two patent suits that threatened its survival. Vonage shares more than doubled. Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. ...

Jones Day adds five antitrust partners in Chicago, Washington Jones Day, the international law firm of more than 2,220 lawyers, hired five antitrust partners in Washington and Chicago, four from one firm. William Dolan, Paula Render, Michael Sennett and Pamela ...

Officers lead Michael Devlin from the Franklin County courthouse in Union, where he pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of child kidnapping and armed criminal action. Photo by the Washington Missourian Michael Devlin entered his first guilty plea Monday ...

Michael Devlin entered his first guilty plea Monday in the child abduction and assault cases that have stretched across four jurisdictions since two boys were rescued from Devlin’s Kirkwood apartment in January. He appeared Monday morning before Franklin County Associate ...

Having run out of chances to get a multimillion-dollar problem with the new minimum wage law fixed at the Capitol, Missouri firefighters and municipal officials are pinning their hopes on the courts. This spring they begged lawmakers to change a ...

High court

A short trial yielded big results last week for a Gladstone couple. A Jackson County jury awarded Joseph and Pamela Armato more than $3.2 million following a three-day personal-injury trial that ended Thursday. The couple sued 1100 Services in May ...

Dr. Jacquelyn C. Campbell, a national domestic violence expert, gestures at a projection screen during a conference Friday at the Kansas City Public Library. The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association sponsored the 10th Annual Domestic Violence and Children Interdisciplinary Conference, ...

The University of Missouri on Friday named Kansas City attorney Stephen J. Owens as the university system’s next general counsel. Owens, currently a partner with Stinson Morrison Hecker’s Kansas City office, is expected to start in the position in January. ...

Questions surrounding the exact time a man suffered a stroke swayed a jury in its defense verdict following a three-week trial. An attorney for Frederick Beaty, who sought more than $1 million, was unable to convince a Jackson County jury ...