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Brilliant. Opinionated. Gentle. That’s how friends and family described retired Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Blackmar at his remembrance service Friday at Country Club Christian Church. Michael Wolff said in his eulogy that after Blackmar retired, he still read ...

Florence Streeter, a landlord and one of the named plaintiffs in the suit against the Valley Park illegal immigration ordinance, stands in front of one of her properties. Streeter said Hispanic residents were afraid to rent properties in Valley Park, ...

For the most struggling clients of the St. Louis drug court, the stakes have just been raised. Held out as a last chance for high-risk offenders who wouldn’t qualify for the rehab program under current rules, the post-plea program that ...

Two of the three U.S. slaughterhouses that process horse meat for human consumption have stopped while their attorney appeals a federal court ruling that the Texas plants violated a 1949 state ban on the practice. Beltex Corp., of Fort Worth, ...

Apotex sues Glaxo over patent on syrup form of ulcer drug GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-biggest drug maker, was sued by Apotex, which says its syrup version of the ulcer medicine Zantac won’t violate a patent held by its larger rival. ...

Merrill Lynch & Co.’s William McDonough and Lehman Brothers Holdings’ Thomas Russo, vice chairmen at two of Wall Street’s biggest firms, said a rash of lawsuits in the United States was damaging its financial markets. “Frivolous litigation hurts our market, ...

Maryland law firm declines Super Lawyers participation One of Maryland’s largest law firms declined to participate in this year’s list of Maryland Super Lawyers because of ethics concerns about the publication. As a result, none of Venable’s attorneys appear on ...

Peter Sachs looks at one of the posters in his father’s collection inside the Deutsches Historisches Museum. The propaganda poster depicts a grotesque caricature of a Jew paralleled in profile with an Aryan, framed by swastikas and a coffin, above ...

With plans to reverse a Jackson County judge’s 2003 decision, Wal-Mart argued before an en banc appellate panel Thursday that nearly 200,000 employees in a class action suit lacked a common complaint. Former and current employees of Wal-Mart and Sam’s ...

Shoppers rush in as the doors to Wal-Mart’s first high-efficiency Supercenter open Friday on U.S. Highway 40 in Kansas City. On Thursday, Wal-Mart made its case to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District against a class action certification, it ...

Senate Democrats will hold a Judiciary Committee hearing to investigate whether a recent round of dismissals of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration was politically motivated. As many as eight of the federal prosecutors, including one in San Diego who ...