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In a move described as rare, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given an indication that judges may be willing to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of using lethal injection to execute condemned prisoners. The appellate court asked ...

Editor: The State has put together with the cash-strapped City of St. Louis a multi-million aid package for the Cardinal ownership to build Ballpark Village. There are no guarantees that it will be built or financially successful. In fact, there ...

The Missouri State Public Defender system has hired new district defenders to head the agency’s two local offices. The state office announced the changes Friday and also said it would close on Aug. 1 its Youth Advocacy Units in St. ...

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a group of black plaintiffs to pursue their civil rights claims against the Columbia, Mo., Dillard’s department store. “We’re elated,” exclaimed the plaintiffs’ attorney, William D. Rotts. “It looks like civil ...

Americans are much more concerned about corporate misdeeds than tort reform, according to a national poll conducted for the American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Tulsa attorney Jennifer De Angelis, president of the Oklahoma ...

John O’Quinn, a class action plaintiffs’ lawyer in Houston, was ordered to pay an arbitration award of as much as $58.8 million for overcharging thousands of women he represented in breast implant litigation. O’Quinn violated his fiduciary duty by charging ...

Strategically placed security guards can help deter and report crime and rule infractions, detect suspicious activity and otherwise protect your employees, visitors and company property. To choose a security guard firm, whether on an ongoing basis or for a special ...

Courts need to be careful when conducting trials after business hours, lest the routine lock-up of the courthouse violate the defendant’s right to a public trial. A July 3 decision from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a defendant’s conviction ...

Take-Two ex-counsel, officer plead guilty to backdating Take-Two Interactive Software’s former chief lawyer and ex-chief accounting officer pleaded guilty to falsifying business records in connection with the company’s improper backdating of employee stock options. Former accounting officer Patti Tay, 31, ...

The $40,000 blue Chevy Silverado pickup that Justin Crenshaw bought last month in Oklahoma City had one built-in feature that Kent Hickman’s new Toyota Tundra lacked: the health-care tab for retired factory workers. Paying the retiree health benefits adds about ...

Michelle Pfeiffer is such a terrific actress that she’s managed to avoid typecasting despite her beauty-queen looks. At one time, the former Miss Orange County and regular on TV’s “Delta House” seemed destined to play bimbettes. In her early films ...