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Lawyers for oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. are seeking to bar prosecutors from showing jurors at his bribery trial an address book with contact information for financier Marc Rich, calling it “irrelevant and inflammatory.” Defense lawyers last week filed court papers ...

Sherwin-Williams Co. and two other former lead-paint manufacturers who lost a lawsuit over their products should pay $2.4 billion to clean up thousands of contaminated homes in Rhode Island, state officials there said Friday. Under Rhode Island’s plan, Sherwin-Williams, NL ...

A visitor walks in front of a portrait of Charles Evans Whittaker in the judge’s namesake federal courthouse in Kansas City, Mo. The University of Missouri-Kansas City tonight will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Whittaker’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme ...

Employment and immigration lawyers are bracing for the impact of new rules placing greater responsibility on employers to identify — and, if necessary, fire — undocumented workers. On Sept. 14, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was scheduled to put ...

Federal Reserve Gov. Frederic Mishkin joined San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen in flagging an increasing threat to consumer spending, differing with officials who still see signs of economic strength. Mishkin said this week in New York that “heightened uncertainty” ...

BOSTON — Employment and immigration lawyers are bracing for the impact of new rules placing greater responsibility on employers to identify — and, if necessary, fire — undocumented workers. On Sept. 14, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was scheduled ...

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Dennis Kennedy is a St. Louis information technology lawyer, legal technologist and blogger. His blog and his Web page are highly-regarded resources on technology law, legal technology and electronic discovery topics. He is member of the ABA Law Practice Management ...

Joe Zawinul, the founder of jazz fusion group Weather Report, has died at the age of 75. Vienna-born keyboardist Zawinul, who played alongside Chick Corea, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, died of cancer on Tuesday at about 5 a.m. in ...

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer proclaimed Sept. 9 “Farm Aid Day” as the annual concert settled into a new urban venue on Randall’s Island. It felt like Earth Day. The usual concert T-shirts were made from organic cotton. Food stands ...

The number of Americans who may lose their homes to foreclosure reached a record in the second quarter as late payments by subprime borrowers surged to one out of every seven loans. Lenders began the process of seizing properties on ...