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Having failed to persuade the Legislature to give it full relief for its heavy caseload, the Missouri State Public Defender’s system is taking measures into its own hands, possibly with help from the Missouri Supreme Court. The Public Defenders Commission ...

By Scott Lauck [email protected] Acknowledging that the legal process of stripping the district of its accreditation may be “troublesome,” Judge Richard Callahan allowed the state’s takeover of St. Louis Public Schools to proceed last week. The Cole County judge said ...

An Overland woman has accused Bella Villa’s police chief of illegally strip-searching her by photographing her pelvic tattoo after a 2005 arrest. Jami Neco Schmidt, 22, filed a federal suit against Chief Edward Locke Jr., 28, and the south St. ...

Pamela Samuels-Young is writing her fourth book. After her first success with Every Reasonable Doubt</i, she returned to her first attempt at writing and refined In Firm Pursuit. contributed photo It was a John Grisham novel that inspired management attorney ...

Massachusetts high court upholds Herald libel verdict The Boston Herald is not entitled to a rehearing in a libel suit brought by a Superior Court judge, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court on May ...

Former Hollinger International Chairman Conrad Black and three other former company executives rested their defense on federal fraud charges this week without testifying themselves. Closing arguments are set for Monday. Prosecutors claim the men stole $60 million from Hollinger, once ...

The Bush administration dealt a setback to lawsuits that accuse Enron Corp.’s investment banks of helping defraud shareholders out of billions of dollars, refusing to back investors in a similar case at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justice Department let ...

Judge rejects lawyer’s plea in Bonds transcript case Troy Ellerman, a lawyer who admitted leaking baseball player Barry Bonds’ grand jury testimony to a reporter, had his plea agreement with prosecutors thrown out by a federal judge who rejected a ...

Texas police arrest offenders after MySpace provides data Seven convicted sex offenders were arrested in Texas for violating parole restrictions after MySpace.com provided police with their subscriber information. Six of the offenders were prohibited from using the Internet as a ...