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Rep. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court building Tuesday. Lembke said he wanted more openness in the judicial selection process. Photo by Scott Lauck A state representative who largely controls the judiciary’s budget on Tuesday ...

The Appellate Judicial Commission is accepting applications for the position of judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Gary M. Gaertner, effective Friday. Gaertner has served on the ...

Web sites that encourage “vote swapping” by citizens seeking to promote so-called third parties without hurting Democratic or Republican candidates are protected by free-speech rights, an appeals court ruled. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said ...

McFadden-Weaver co-defendant pleads guilty Ricky L. Hamilton, charged in January for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme allegedly involving a former Kansas City councilwoman, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday. Hamilton, 53, of Grandview, confessed to U.S. District Judge ...

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, persuaded a judge to throw out a jury’s record $1.52 billion verdict in a landmark case over Alcatel-Lucent’s MP3 digital-music patents. U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego said Monday that the ...

Access of terminally ill to experimental drugs blocked A federal appeals court has ruled that terminally ill patients don’t have a constitutional right to use experimental drugs that have passed limited safety trials but haven’t been proven safe and effective. ...

Class-action filings down 95% in Madison County

A tape-recorded conversation with a supervisor about his firing earned a former Maryland Heights police captain his day in court on an age-discrimination claim. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Douglas Daugherty’s discrimination claims must be tried in St. ...

A state representative who largely controls the judiciary’s budget on Tuesday accused the Appellate Judicial Commission of violating the state’s Sunshine Law and vowed to file a bill next year to make the body’s adherence to the law “crystal clear.” ...

A Westin Hotel employee involved in a car accident with another hotel employee may pursue his personal injury lawsuit against the hotel and his co-worker, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The ruling disagrees with a 2006 decision by St. ...

A former employee of Cardinal Ritter Senior Services has pleaded guilty to embezzling $169,000 from the nonprofit group – money intended for seniors and disabled adults. Marie Allen, 54, of St. Louis, admitted to cashing “hundreds of checks” that should ...