Carmody MacDonald’s Suzanne S. Swacker was elected to the Board of Directors for the La Clinica Latino Community Health Centers. La Clinica is a multicultural proficient Health Care Center for the underprivileged. The mission of La Clinica is to provide ...
Read More »Husch & Eppenberger hires new associates
Matthew D. Guymon has joined Husch & Eppenberger LLC as an associate attorney in the firm’s Land Use Development and Financing Practice Group. Guymon concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate and commercial finance. Prior to graduating from ...
Read More »Judge denies gag order on Devlin’s interviews
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 ...
Read More »O’Connor will hear Missouri voting discrimination case
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 ...
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Kanatzar appoints Harrell as deputy prosecuting attorney Jackson County prosecutor Kevin D. Harrell earned a promotion last week. Harrell was named deputy prosecuting attorney by newly appointed Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar, who previously held the deputy position. According to ...
Read More »Criminal advice for the civil practitioner
You are a civil practitioner sitting in your office preparing an answer to a products-liability complaint when your phone rings. On the other end of the line is the CEO of a large corporate client — frantic because a group ...
Read More »Request to skip death penalty raises issue for judge
After 15 years of legal maneuvers designed to keep him off death row, Kenneth Baumruk leaned over to his defense counsel Monday morning and said he wanted to die. Baumruk told his attorney life in prison was a worse sentence ...
Read More »Adviser to ABA panel on judges’ conduct quits to protest change
An adviser to an America Bar Association panel revising judicial standards of conduct has resigned over a last-minute change that he says dilutes the obligation of judges to avoid impropriety and its appearance. Robert Tembeckjian, who heads New York’s Commission ...
Read More »Apple ends dispute with Beatles
Apple ended a legal dispute with the Beatles over rights to use the Apple name and logos, potentially clearing the way for the company to distribute the group
Read More »Baumruk asks for death sentence
Judge requires defense to present case for life
Read More »Nation Briefs
FBI agent Deborah S. Bond, center, arrives at U.S. District Court on Monday during the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. The judge in Libby’s perjury trial agreed to release audiotapes of his testimony to a grand jury after they ...
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