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A federal appeals court has refused to extend liability to Anheuser-Busch for the death of a woman and injuries to three others in a vehicle accident with a drunk driver who had just left an event at a Stillwater bar. ...

A former Kansas City attorney who had his law license revoked last year must pay a former client $600,000 for legal malpractice, a Jackson County judge ordered last week. When Wendell Geary Jaco failed to appear for a hearing June ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has launched a new Peer-to-Patent pilot project, a test model designed to enable the public to participate in the patent-examination process by allowing computer technology experts to submit technical references related to a patent ...

Even though a wife agreed to separate from her husband, this did not automatically disqualify her from receiving surviving spouse veterans’ benefits upon his death, the Federal Circuit has ruled. The couple separated in 1970. Two years later the husband ...

In a recent petition to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Washington Legal Foundation — a public interest law group — voiced concerns over the agency’s criminal enforcement policies and practices. In a 13-page filing to EPA administrator Steve Johnson and ...

CVS Caremark Corp., the second-biggest U.S. drugstore chain, and two former executives settled claims they used an improper trade of stuffed animals to overstate profit, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said. CVS broke accounting rules in a barter deal ...

Parmalat Finanziaria SpA, the dairy company that filed Italy’s largest bankruptcy, must defend a multibillion-dollar investor lawsuit stemming from the collapse of a predecessor company, a U.S. judge ruled. The prior company, also called Parmalat Finanziaria Spa, filed for bankruptcy ...

W.R. Grace & Co., a bankrupt chemical maker, may owe victims of its asbestos products as much as $6.2 billion — more than four times a proposed company cap — said a legal scholar hired by attorneys suing the company. ...

The Oakland Raiders won’t get a new trial in its lawsuit against the National Football League over the team’s failed plans to build a stadium in the Los Angeles area in the 1990s, a California court ruled. The California Supreme ...

The U.S. House of Representatives moved toward giving small companies an additional year to adhere to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s accounting rules, which are being revised by the Securities and Exchange Commission. House lawmakers voted 267 to 154 to delay a ...

Gov. Matt Blunt said Wednesday that he might call a special legislative session to address the state’s Second Injury Fund after receiving a request last week from Attorney General Jay Nixon. In a letter to Nixon’s office on Wednesday, Blunt ...