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High Court overrules judge; attorney may request delay in murder trial

A redevelopment case on a judicial fast track offered the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday its first chance to review eminent domain reforms passed by last year’s Legislature. The case pits properties in one of Missouri’s wealthiest communities against an ...

Attorney Kevin Cushing, of Carmody MacDonald, carries a poster featuring Clayton out of the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cushing’s firm represented landowners fighting eminent domain in that city. To his left are Thomas Weaver and Jeff McPherson, attorneys who ...

Justices support parents on school-services lawsuits Parents of a disabled child can go to court without a lawyer’s assistance to seek special school services, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The court on Monday said the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education ...

Area firm shares benefits of going paperless nationally Roger Burnett and Karen Morrison, of Burnett & Driskill in Liberty, gave a presentation last month on being a paperless office to the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives in Baltimore, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest in shielding drug makers from some lawsuits by patients, asking the Bush administration for advice on a $6.8 million award to a woman who lost her arm after being injected with Wyeth’s Phenergan anti-nausea ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether dozens of states are violating the Constitution by giving holders of in-state municipal bonds tax breaks that aren’t available for local government debt issued elsewhere. The justices on Monday agreed to review a ...

Competing motions for summary judgment are vying for District Judge Catherine D. Perry’s attention in a case between a southeastern Missouri school district and community members over the distribution of Bibles to students. At the same time, a panel of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday clearing several telecom companies of antitrust allegations may have some resonance in Missouri. The U.S. District Court in St. Louis is the host venue for a class action antitrust lawsuit against three biotechnology companies, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court put new limits on antitrust lawsuits, throwing out a case that accused Verizon Communications and other local-telephone companies of agreeing not to compete in each other’s home territories. The justices, voting 7-2, on Monday said the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a St. Louis County death penalty from 1987 concerning whether the prosecutor’s remarks during the death-penalty phase of the case had unfairly inflamed jurors. In an unsigned opinion, the court voted 6-3 to uphold ...