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Overworked, underpaid and short-staffed, St. Tammany Parish public defenders are working 12-hour days, tackling more cases than ever and sometimes delaying cases by months, said John Simmons, 22nd Judicial District Court chief indigent defender. With a post-Hurricane Katrina population surge, ...

A federal judge threw out a lawsuit that asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to curb the use of mercury in vaccines made by Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis and other drug companies. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington said Thursday ...

California’s $3 billion stem-cell funding agency, the largest in the nation, was upheld by a San Francisco appeals court that rejected claims by anti-abortion groups that it’s unconstitutional. The voter-approved California Institute for Regenerative Medicine “suffers from no constitutional or ...

Robert Nardelli, pictured in September helping move a section of playground equipment into place in Toronto, faces a suit from a former Home Depot employee who claims she wasn

Yahoo, AOL ask judge to reject music publishers on royalties Yahoo, Time Warner’s AOL and other Internet companies urged a judge to reject music publishers’ request to impose an additional royalty on downloaded songs. The American Society of Composers, Authors ...

Events to mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision got under way last week with Washington University School of Law’s two-day symposium on Friday and Saturday titled “The Dred Scott Case and Its Legacy: Race, ...

Lorenzo Gilyard continues to claim his innocence. And beginning today the man accused of being one of Missouri’s worst serial killers will attempt to disprove significant DNA evidence against him. Gilyard will appear in the Kansas City courtroom of Circuit ...

Broderick Johnson has joined as president of Bryan Cave Strategies LLC and of counsel to Bryan Cave LLP. Johnson comes to Bryan Cave with more than two decades of public policy and law experience. From 1998-2000, Johnson served in the ...

Kim Allen has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as a staff attorney for the Immigration Law Project, a unit that represents clients on a variety of issues including naturalization, family reunification and deportation. Before joining legal services, Allen served ...

In a recent special election, the Friends of the Sheldon elected Armstrong Teasdale LLP partner, John H. Quinn III, to serve on the Board of Directors. The Friends of the Sheldon support The Sheldon Concert Hall by raising funds that ...

Events to mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision got under way last week with Washington University School of Law’s two-day symposium on Friday and Saturday titled “The Dred Scott Case and Its Legacy: Race, ...