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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 ...

After the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District rejected its arguments earlier this month, Allstate Insurance Co. is now turning to the state’s high court in hopes of keeping trade secrets from becoming public. In a legal battle that began ...

While they wait for a federal court to issue a ruling, opponents of a Missouri law that establishes new requirements for abortion clinics also are seeking to take their case to state courts. Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and ...

Ruling on preliminary injunction expected today

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 St. Louis County judge ruled Friday that attorney Eric Tolen will remain jailed until his criminal trial on 18 counts of statutory sodomy. It will now take $1 million in cash for Tolen to walk free before being tried ...

St. Louis’ sewer district was due to respond Friday to allegations from the Environmental Protection Agency that the public agency is negligently managing its pipes and sewers. The response will come more than three months after the EPA and the ...

The exterior of Judge John O’Malley’s courtroom in the Jackson County Courthouse. O’Malley ruled Friday that a trial over an allegation of sexual abuse by a priest can go forward in October. Photo by Scott Lauck Sexual abuse allegations against ...

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., the world’s third-largest manufacturer of silicon wafers, lost an appeals court bid to revive a patent-infringement lawsuit against bigger rival Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corp. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld ...

Cozen O’Connor, a Philadelphia-based law firm, was sued by attorney Patricia Biswanger, who claims she was fired in 2005 in retaliation for filing a sex-bias complaint, the Legal Intelligencer reported. In the suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia, ...

Mark Beese is director of marketing for Holland & Hart LLP a 350-attorney law firm with offices throughout the Mountain West. Based in Denver, Colo., the firm has 12 offices in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Washington ...