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St. Louis-based Luco Mop Co., a manufacturer of roofing mops and brushes, won a lawsuit filed by a former employee. The plaintiff, Jeannette Brannon, charged the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it fired her in 2005. Brannon, ...

Former Enron Corp. Treasurer Ben Glisan is escorted by federal agents out of the Federal Courthouse in Houston in October 2004. Glisan was the first Enron defendant to go to prison for fraud that brought the company down in 2001.Photo ...

The Federal Election Commission asked the U.S. Supreme Court this month to uphold a section of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that bans corporations from using their treasury funds to sponsor certain types of ads during campaign season. And last ...

Insurers get backing on credit-reporting law U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they might limit the duty of insurance companies to tell consumers about flaws in their credit histories, questioning a ruling that insurers say would open them to billions of ...

Federal regulators must assess the environmental impact of a possible terrorist attack on a PG&E nuclear storage waste facility, according to a Supreme Court ruling last week. PG&E owner of California’s largest utility, argued in its appeal that an environmental ...

Merril Hirsh, partner at the law firm Ross, Dixon and Bell, testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about competition between generic and brand name drugs Wednesday in Washington. A proposal in the U.S. Senate would bar brand-name drug makers ...

The 7th Circuit on Jan. 4 upheld, against a constitutional attack, a photo ID law for voters in Indiana. Indiana passed a law requiring voters to present at the polling place government-issued photo identification, unless the person votes by absentee ...

The New York Times Co. won dismissal of a libel suit by Steven J. Hatfill, a scientist the U.S. Justice Department once identified as a “person of interest” in the 2001 anthrax attacks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, ...

Merck gets mistrial in Vioxx case in Los Angeles Merck & Co. was granted a mistrial after a Los Angeles jury couldn’t reach a verdict after six days of deliberations in a case over the heart attacks of two men ...

Mary Jane Pieroni, the immediate past treasurer for the city of Ladue, has joined the West County-based certified public accounting firm of Bergman, Schraier & Co PC, as manager in the accounting and auditing department. Pieroni is a certified fraud ...

Patricia L. Bland and Bradley J. Sylwester have joined Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal PC. Sylwester brings more than seven years of litigation experience and will focus on insurance and public entity defense, while Bland will work in the firm’s corporate ...