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The St. Louis Zoo may keep ownership of its name. The zoo did not have a formal trademark on its name for most of its nearly 100 years of existence, but a common-law trademark prevents a St. Louis man from ...

The attorney for Missouri death-row inmate Michael Taylor have asked the state Supreme Court not to issue a death warrant for her client until he is able to appeal his case to the full 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Alan N. Zvibleman, shareholder in Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, has been designated and elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The AAML is a selective organization of family law negotiators and litigators, with 1,600 members ...

Carolyn Wolff has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP in the firm’s St. Louis office. Wolff joins Bryan Cave’s Employee Benefits Group as of counsel after retiring from Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., where she served as associate general counsel ...

Bryan Cave, the international law firm with offices in St. Louis and Kansas City, has been named to CIO magazine’s annual CIO 100, a compilation of organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether employees who participate in 401(k) plans have the right to sue for breach of fiduciary duty. The case stems from a suit filed in 2004 by a Texas ...

Paint makers win lead suit ruling Sherwin-Williams Co. and other former manufacturers of lead-based paint won dismissal of a lawsuit by New Jersey cities and counties that claimed the companies’ products endangered public health. The New Jersey Supreme Court said ...

Judges of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took healthy swings Thursday at arguments on both sides of a dispute between Major League Baseball and a St. Louis-based fantasy baseball provider. A three-judge panel heard arguments in a lawsuit ...

Durham County, N.C., District Attorney Mike Nifong said he would resign his position during testimony at his ethics hearing for alleged misconduct during the Duke University lacrosse case. “It is my intention, whatever decision is coming, to resign as district ...

Public Defender Commission member Eric Barnhart reviews a draft of a proposed Supreme Court rule that would allow some overloaded district offices to temporarily stop taking cases. The commission plans to ask the Supreme Court to require judges not to ...

A Jackson County jury awarded $81,000 to a man who claimed evil motives were behind his firing from a Kansas City car dealership two years ago. Tim McGeeney claimed his boss at Superior Volvo cited poor performance when he fired ...