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A proposed constitutional amendment goes too far in defending the Legislature’s power of the purse, bar officials said Thursday. The Missouri Bar held a press conference at its headquarters in Jefferson City a few days before a state Senate committee ...

Retired Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ann Covington joins The Missouri Bar President Ron Baird, right, and others on Thursday in opposing a proposal they say would strip courts of the ability to hear property and tax disputes. Supporters of the ...

Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore retailer, was sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which claimed the company assigned employees and denied promotions based on race. The retailer, based in Deerfield, Ill., sent managers, management trainees and pharmacists ...

Lawyers on both sides of the child-support modification issue battled for leverage Wednesday morning in the state Supreme Court. At issue is whether the system puts too much power in the hands of the Department of Social Services and decreases ...

Our March 6 story “Firm accused of firing whistle-blowing workers” misattributed to Ken McClain comments made by his partner, Buford Farrington, the president of Humphrey, Farrington & McClain. When Farrington returned the call our reporter had placed to McClain, she ...

Lawyers for a man convicted last month of shooting his wife to death inside the St. Louis County Circuit Court have filed a motion for an acquittal or a new trial. A jury on Feb. 6 recommended that Kenneth Baumruk, ...

TheGlobe.com says ruling may force bankruptcy TheGlobe.com, found liable in Los Angeles federal court last week for sending spam e-mails to users of rival Web site MySpace.com, said it might be forced into bankruptcy by the judge’s decision. TheGlobe.com may ...

Grand jury indicts officers of Islamic charity A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Columbia-based organization and five of its officers for illegally transferring money to Iraq. The Islamic American Relief Agency, formerly known as the Islamic African ...

One element of 2005’s tort reform statutes was argued Wednesday in the state Supreme Court for a St. Louis man who brought a personal injury lawsuit against a dozen makers of chemicals he was exposed to on the job. Alfred ...

Lawyers on both sides of the child support modification issue battled for leverage Wednesday morning in the state Supreme Court. At issue is whether the current system puts too much power in the hands of the Department of Social Services ...

The legal aspects of religious life will be the focus of a three-day seminar this week in St. Louis. Sponsored by the Legal Resource Center for Religious, a Silver Spring, Md.-based group that provides legal education to Catholic institutes, the ...