Judge Harold Satz, who retired from the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District bench in 1992 died on Sunday of complications from cancer. Satz was on the appellate bench for 14 years after serving on the St. Louis County Circuit ...
Read More »Gilyard verdicts bring ‘closure and justice’
It was a ruling two decades in the making. Lorenzo Gilyard is guilty of six murders from March 1986 to December 1987, Jackson County Circuit Judge John O’Malley ruled Friday morning. Gilyard was acquitted of a seventh charge. The convictions ...
Read More »Courthouse Roundup: Doctor cleared of 14-year-old’s meningitis death
The death of a 14-year-old boy was not the fault of a Cameron doctor who treated and released him just hours before he died. A Jackson County jury took less than four hours in returning its verdict for the defendant ...
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Morgan Stanley settles sex bias suit with advisers Morgan Stanley agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by women who claimed they were discriminated against as financial advisers employed by the company, the second largest U.S. securities firm by ...
Read More »McCaskill, Hermeling and Vaughan to receive honors
Sen. Claire McCaskill, Carrie Hermeling and Kayla Vaughan will be honored next month by Missouri Lawyers Media at the annual St. Louis Daily Record Women’s Justice Awards. Susan E. Block, partner at Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal and a member of ...
Read More »More awards: Blunt helps recognize prosecutor’s staff
Jeannette P. Graviss was honored Friday with the circuit attorney’s 2006 Excellence in Prosecution Award for prosecuting a man who shot a St. Louis police officer. Gov. Matt Blunt joined Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce in the Carnahan Courthouse to present ...
Read More »More awards: Blunt helps recognize prosecutor’s staff
Jeannette P. Graviss was honored Friday with the circuit attorney’s 2006 Excellence in Prosecution Award for prosecuting a man who shot a St. Louis police officer. Gov. Matt Blunt joined Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce in the Carnahan Courthouse to present ...
Read More »CBS’s Redstone loves YouTube site; Viacom’s Redstone hates it
Sumner Redstone has dealt with two companies with opposite relationships with YouTube. Through CBS, he announced a deal to air NCAA tournament clips on the site, but Viacom has sued YouTube for airing television clips without permission. Photo by Jamie ...
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DuPont says court upholds company patents on soybean technology DuPont Co., the third-largest U.S. chemical maker, won a court ruling in a dispute over a patent for a process that uses molecular “markers” to select oilseed varieties resistant to the ...
Read More »Fantasy sports leagues hire lawyers to end e-mail disputes
Attorney Bill Green’s Web site offers to settle fantasy sports league disputes for $10. His and two other sites help team owners determine whether deals take advantage of other owners. Photo by Stephen Hilger/Bloomberg News Attorney Bill Green has spent ...
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