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Vonage Holdings Corp., an Internet phone-service provider, infringed six patents owned by competitor Sprint Nextel Corp. and should pay $69.5 million in damages, a federal jury decided. The panel reached its verdict in the patent-infringement trial Tuesday in federal court ...

Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region is so far holding off on a planned lawsuit over part of a new anti-abortion law aimed at keeping it out of classrooms, saying so far schools agree it should be allowed to ...

U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith on Monday granted a preliminary injunction, allowing Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas City and Columbia to continue operating while the organization and state health officials work out which standards they must meet to be properly ...

A Jackson County judge ruled a drunken driver who killed a Kansas City teen is guilty of murder. Mark A. Royal was drunk when he caused the two-car wreck that resulted of the death of 19-year-old Brendan L. Johnson in ...

The message is “If you want to walk, don’t talk,” but a lot of people are talking about the law firm’s downtown St. Louis billboard and not all of them are happy. McMahon, Taaffe and Wold, the firm that placed ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday about whether the state of Missouri must transport female prisoners to clinics to undergo nontherapeutic abortions. A female prisoner, identified as Jane Roe, filed the class action two years ago after the state ...

Attorneys for St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa have petitioned a federal appeals court to grant him immunity from a pending federal lawsuit that aims to hold him responsible for planning the raid of some protesters’ homes four years ago. ...

The judges of the St. Louis Circuit Court on Monday unanimously approved a rule change that would allow the probate court to conduct civil commitment hearings through videoconferencing. A group of psychiatric hospitals had asked the court to consider videoconferences ...

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District said in a court filing Friday evening that it is unable to comply with some requirements of the federal Clean Water Act, and the agency partly blames the state. The filing was the sewer ...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused Facebook Inc., the second-most popular social-networking Web site, of not keeping young users safe from sexual predators and not responding to complaints about their safety. Cuomo subpoenaed the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company on ...

A Minnesota prosecutor urged a judge on Monday not to let Idaho Sen. Larry Craig withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct after a police officer said he solicited sex in an airport men’s room. In papers filed in Minnesota ...