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Norfolk Southern Corp. and other railroad companies won a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the standards that govern lawsuits by employees injured on the job. The justices Wednesday unanimously set aside a $1.5 million award won by Norfolk Southern worker ...

Home Depot investors ask court to block ex-CEO’s pay Home Depot shareholders asked a court to stop the company from paying ousted Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli his $210 million separation package. The shareholders filed a suit Wednesday in a ...

Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewer, lost a last-ditch attempt at the European Court of Human Rights to own the rights to the Budweiser trademark in Portugal. The court in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday rejected Anheuser-Busch’s argument by 15 votes to ...

Charges brought against teen for September homicide A Kansas City teenager faces a second-degree murder charge for a September shooting that left one man dead. Devin Douglas, 17, was charged Thursday for the death of 25-year-old Devan G. Murray. He ...

Former Enron Corp. investors suing over the energy trader’s collapse asked a judge to drop the estate of former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay as a defendant in their class action case. Lawyers for the University of California Regents asked U.S. ...

Enron Corp. shareholders should be allowed to sue Wall Street banks as a group for their alleged role in the financial manipulations that helped destroy the company, 30 state attorneys general said in a court filing. In a brief filed ...

Having been rebuffed by the southern district appeals court, a parent and attorney from Seneca filed for a writ last week against the state’s social services department in the Missouri Supreme Court. A Jan. 24 administrative hearing threatens to reduce ...

MacWorld attendees look over an iPhone on display Tuesday during MacWorld in San Francisco. The next day, Cisco Systems sued Apple over rights to the iPod-based product’s name. Photo by Eric Slomanson/Bloomberg News Cisco Systems sued Apple over its new ...

In his final State of the Judiciary address, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff gave a succinct call for increased judicial salaries and announced plans for a newer, better Missouri Bar judicial evaluation. In his speech before a joint ...

Lawyers for a Swedish model convicted of second-degree drug trafficking convinced the Missouri Supreme Court that nearly 70 pounds of marijuana found in a vehicle search was the result of an illegal search and seizure and should not have been ...

Tyson to pay $1 million to settle Illinois odor claim Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, agreed to pay about $1 million to settle nine-year-old allegations that it had failed to curb foul odors coming from a company beef ...