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The city of Valley Park moved for summary judgment Friday on the federal suit against its immigration ordinances. The city wants U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber to rule the city’s ordinances are in line with Missouri law and are ...

Fired employees of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., the second-biggest mortgage lender in bankruptcy, have sued the company for back wages, claiming they were terminated without proper warning. Attorneys filed the suit last week on behalf of two former workers. ...

Robert Swearingen has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as a staff attorney in the organization’s consumer unit. He was hired under a special grant Legal Services received from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. As a staff attorney ...

J. Grant Moubry has joined Armstrong Teasdale as an associate. Moubry is a member of the firm’s intellectual property practice group and focuses his practice primarily on patent prosecution matters. Before joining the firm, Moubry served in the U.S. Air ...

A whistleblower lawsuit accusing insurers of overcharging the federal flood program for Hurricane Katrina damage was halted after the U.S. Justice Department said the case might compromise a criminal investigation. The suit, unsealed last week by a federal judge in ...

If you’re looking for a business hotel, you won’t have to look too far. Cities are dotted with full-service hotels, limited-service hotels and one-of-a-kind venues that offer high-quality overnight accommodations, conference and meeting facilities and state-of-the-art technologies that can accommodate ...

Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest health-products company, sued the American Red Cross and four of its licensing partners, claiming illegal use of a red cross emblem on first-aid kits and other emergency products. The Red Cross called the lawsuit ...

FedEx Corp. is speeding toward a collision inside an Indiana federal courthouse where drivers at the company’s ground-delivery unit are demanding full-time status. The court is weighing suits filed by 150 independent contract drivers who say they are treated as ...

Frieder Burda, who founded a museum to house his collection of works by Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, says there are some artists whose paintings he just won’t buy any more because prices are “out of control.” ...

Tommy Makem, the musician, singer and master storyteller who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to popularize traditional Irish folk music around the world, has died. He was 74. Makem died in New Hampshire this past week from lung cancer, according ...