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Westar, Kansas’s largest utility, must pay the legal fees of former Executive Vice President Douglas Lake, who is scheduled to stand trial on conspiracy charges in January, a judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson in Topeka also ordered ...

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 ...

Shughart attorney named young lawyers president Chris Sobba, a business and construction litigation attorney with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, was elected last month as president of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City Young Lawyers Section. Sobba has served for four ...

A trooper closes the sally-port gate as a truck makes a delivery in December to Camp Delta at the U.S. naval station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear appeals by Guantánamo inmates who say ...

A group of physician associations filed a lawsuit late Thursday seeking to strike down a controversial law allowing the practice of midwifery in Missouri. In pleadings filed in Cole County Circuit Court, several physician groups said the law “jeopardizes the ...

Attorneys challenge class-action waiver

Pitcher’s drinking called moderate

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear appeals by Guantanamo Bay inmates, held without trial for more than five years, who say the Bush administration and Congress have deprived them of a constitutional right to go to federal court. The justices ...

John Roberts, ending his second term as chief justice with a ruling restricting school integration, spearheaded a shift in American law that cut back precedents from a more liberal era. On abortion, campaign finance and student speech, the Supreme Court ...

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the world’s second-largest cruise ship operator, said it was awarded $15.2 million for lost profit in a lawsuit against Pentair Inc. over an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on one of its boats. The jury verdict in ...

As health-care premiums march onward and upward, companies and their employees feel the pinch. It’s more important than ever to choose a topnotch benefits adviser who can find the best group health plan for your ever-shrinking dollar — in addition ...