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Supreme Court accepts Sprint bias lawsuit The U.S. Supreme Court will use an age-bias lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp. to consider limiting the ability of workers to present evidence of discrimination against other employees at trial. The justices agreed on ...

When Coco Soodek, a corporate lawyer in the Chicago office of Bryan Cave, was promoted to partner in 2005, the firm invited all the new partners to dinner at its St. Louis headquarters. Soodek, 36, was encouraged to bring her ...

Companies engaged in voluntary environmental cleanups can seek to recoup their costs by suing other businesses and the federal government, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The justices unanimously ruled in favor of spacecraft-parts maker Sequa Corp., which wants the United ...

Tobacco giant Philip Morris Cos. lost federal court jurisdiction in a lawsuit challenging the design and promotion of the company’s light cigarettes — a decision that could reach beyond the tobacco industry. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said Philip ...

State, not federal, court will hear Philip Morris class-action suit

Dumping millions of gallons of raw sewage into every major river in the St. Louis metro area, including the Mississippi; illegally connecting sanitary and storm-water sewers; exposing St. Louis residents to bacteria, parasites and other dangerous pathogens. These are the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up another Eighth Circuit case on federal sentencing guidelines after dropping a St. Louis-based appeal when the petitioner was shot and killed last month in an attempted car theft. This new case, first filed ...

ABA President Karen Mathis will be visiting St. Louis next week on June 19 and 20. On Tuesday, she will begin her day by attending the Council on Legal Education/Diversity program with students from the University of Missouri School of ...

A divided federal appeals court, in a rebuke to the Bush administration, ruled that an alleged al-Qaida agent held for four years in U.S. military custody couldn’t be detained indefinitely without being charged. The 2-1 decision by the 4th U.S. ...

In a case described as bizarre by both plaintiff’s and defense attorneys, a Jackson County jury needed little time in dismissing a woman’s allegations against a liquor store. The jury returned a unanimous verdict in only 13 minutes. “The plaintiff’s ...

For the second time in two weeks, a metro jury returned a plaintiff’s verdict in a medical-malpractice trial. A Jackson County jury awarded $1 million to Kathryn Cetto, who had a surgical sponge left in her armpit by a plastic ...