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The federal appeals court in St. Louis upheld the constitutionality of using lethal injection to carry out a death penalty. And the ruling is a landmark vindication of the state’s practice of executing condemned inmates, a spokesman for the Department ...

A greater-than-average number of applicants are seeking the bench in Jackson County. Terry Lord, clerk for the Western District Court of Appeals, said 16 filed applications before Monday afternoon’s deadline for the open Circuit Court judgeship. Lord said he typically ...

Two former U.S. attorneys for Western Missouri will testify today before the Senate Judiciary Committee about how voter fraud affected the Justice Department’s decisions to hire and fire federal prosecutors. The committee will first question Bradley Schlozman, interim U.S. attorney ...

State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. received mostly favorable verdicts in a pair of trials last week. The plaintiffs, who included a woman who lost her son in a June 2000 accident, sought millions of dollars in uninsured motorist claims. But ...

Losing his license to practice law might not be Eric Affholter’s most pressing concern right now, but the possibility looms for the former head of the state public defender’s office in St. Louis. Affholter, who was charged Wednesday with arranging ...

Woman sues liquor store for threats, racial slur An African American woman claimed the manager of a downtown liquor store threatened her with a gun after making a racial slur. In her lawsuit against the store, Letrice Dionne Adams said ...

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled it might use an appeal by a Canadian mining company to decide whether a federal environmental-cleanup law covers foreign companies when their pollution makes its way into U.S. territory. The justices on Monday asked the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court limited the rights of consumers under a federal credit-reporting law in a victory for insurers Safeco Corp. and Geico Corp. and other financial-services companies. The Fair Credit Reporting Act doesn’t require insurers to notify every consumer ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving FedEx Corp. to clear up lower court disagreement about the steps workers must take before they can sue their employers for age discrimination. The justices on Monday agreed to hear FedEx’s ...

Fox wins challenge to FCC indecency policy Fox Television Stations won a court challenge to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission rule that expanded federal broadcast indecency policy by targeting “fleeting expletives” on live shows. A federal appeals court in New ...

Could have been key ruling on sentencing guidelines