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Wal-Mart lost a bid to prevent 2 million current and former female workers from proceeding as a group with sex-bias claims in the largest employment lawsuit in U.S. history. A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld a ...

A senior Justice Department official, confirming the Bush administration fired at least seven U.S. attorneys last year, said Senate Democrats’ claims the dismissals were politically motivated are “like a knife in my heart.” Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, who reminded ...

The estate of a Clark University student who fatally overdosed on heroin in her dorm room could not bring a negligence suit against school officials, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled. The defendant officials argued that they had no ...

Samsung to pay $90 million to settle 41 state claims Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest memory-chip maker, agreed to pay $90 million to settle claims that it conspired to fix prices on dynamic random access memory. The 41 states ...

Nixon sues to stop business from selling loans without license Attorney General Jay Nixon is taking action against an Independence payday loan business that offered unsecured loans to and collected fees from consumers without a license. The Attorney General filed ...

Kenneth Baumruk has received what he wanted, a recommendation from the jury for the death penalty. The recommendation was announced Tuesday afternoon in St. Charles Circuit Court. Judge Lucy D. Rauch will take the jury’s recommendation into consideration when she ...

In a tense preliminary hearing Tuesday morning in Union, a Franklin County judge refused to issue a gag order on the New York Post reporter who interviewed suspected kidnapper Michael Devlin last month at Franklin County jail. Associate Circuit Judge ...

An 8th Circuit panel, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, will hear a challenge to Missouri’s voting law on Monday morning. In Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services et al. v. Robin Carnahan, the association will ask the ...

Appeals court drops conspiracy claim

An immigration bill introduced in the Missouri legislature is on solid legal ground, even though one major provision has yet to be tested in state court, a prominent University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor said Tuesday. Professor Kris Kobach, who ...

Robert J. Droney, Gary R. Long and Robert B. Preston have joined the law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman as associates. Droney is a member of the firm’s Real Estate & Construction Law and Governmental Law & Relations departments. ...