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Nike sues Italian shoemaker Geox over design patent Nike, the world’s largest athletic shoemaker, accused the Italian shoe company Geox of infringing its patented design for a model of running shoes in a lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court. The ...

Ron Gettelfinger, chief of the United Auto Workers, sat at the bargaining table with the Big Three automakers while holding one of the weakest hands in the 72-year-old union’s history. He also had the shadow of union icon Walter Reuther ...

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole said investors who lost money buying subprime mortgage-linked securities got what they deserved. Poole chastised the underwriting standards and interest-rate assessments of Wall Street and endorsed the Fed’s steps to strengthen ...

MINNEAPOLIS — With regulatory and other practical concerns growing, the intersection of law and the environment is likely to get more congested in coming years — and not just in high-profile cases such as the recent one involving 3M’s alleged ...

AstraZeneca Plc lost a court ruling that opens the door to generic competition for its blood-pressure treatment Toprol-XL. A U.S. appeals court in Washington said Monday a patent on the drug is invalid because the compound is already covered by ...

On Wall Street, where the most lucrative credit markets are barely limping thanks to the worst housing slump in a decade, there isn’t a chief executive officer who will tell you there is a crisis. A few weeks after Merrill ...

An admission of fault last week from a highly experienced trial lawyer added another chapter to a Jackson County case already deep in controversy. From several missed discovery deadlines to a rare civil contempt order and a $10,000-per-day fine, all ...

One of three appellate judges — Nannette A. Baker, Patricia A. Breckenridge or Ronald R. Holliger — will become the state’s newest Supreme Court justice. Laura Denvir Stith, chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and chairwoman of the Appellate ...

Aquila will pay $10.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges current and former employees lost $150 million in retirement funds because the company violated its fiduciary duty, according to the preliminary settlement. The settlement was made Monday ...

A pregnant woman ordered out of her car at gunpoint by Independence police officers and forced to lie face down next to a highway during a traffic stop earlier this month is suing the department and the city for failing ...

Lawyer use of the Internet has increased enormously the past five years, so much so that there is now a name for these activities: “e-lawyering.” Although Internet use has become commonplace, many lawyers have not fully come to realize the ...