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Police have no new clues in murder of Clayton attorney More than three months after Clayton attorney Ernest “Ernie” Brasier was shot dead in his law office, his murder remains unsolved. Clayton police Capt. Kevin Murphy said Monday that Brasier’s ...

Kansas City municipal judges have been the highest paid judges in the state, but their annual pay raise of 4 percent they’ve enjoyed the past several years was dropped to 2 percent this year. The 2 percent decrease was included ...

A group of 35 Bosnians refugees now living in St. Louis sued federal authorities last Friday, claiming government inaction unlawfully denied them U.S. citizenship. The group alleges their citizenship applications languished in the bureaucracy for up to two years. Immigration ...

The Clayton law firm of Green, Jacobson & Butsch and its co-counsel in the BankAmerica securities class-action suit survived a lawsuit by an unhappy plaintiff that could have cost the lawyers their $90 million attorney fees, plus compensatory and punitive ...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ Supreme Court, is maintaining a slower pace this year. The delays mean the majority of the court’s rulings will come in the term’s final three months. Photo by Chris Greenberg/Bloomberg News As U.S. Supreme Court ...

Guantánamo detainee pleads guilty to terrorism charge David Hicks, the first detainee to face charges before new military commissions at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism as part of a plea bargain, ...

Bloomberg News The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether businesses can be sued under federal securities law for taking part in schemes to defraud the shareholders of other companies. The justices on Monday agreed to consider reviving a lawsuit that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court aired its differences over a 95-year-old antitrust precedent that bars manufacturers and distributors from agreeing with retailers on minimum prices for their products. Hearing arguments Monday in Washington, several justices suggested that a less rigid rule ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider reviving the power of prosecutors to enforce a federal pornography law when they can’t prove sexually explicit images include actual children and aren’t computer generated. The justices on Monday agreed to consider a Bush ...

Acknowledgment came for the first time last week that groups exposed to toxins but displaying no injuries can form class action lawsuits seeking money to monitor their medical progress. The Supreme Court on March 20 reversed and remanded the St. ...

A group of public employees who agreed to a settlement with their employer in open court cannot renege on the deal, the 7th Circuit held on March 19. However, it is likely that it is only because they waived their ...