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Motorola may face a fine of as much as $100 million for allowing expert witnesses to read trial transcripts before testifying in a $10 billion trade-secrets case that ended in a hung jury, a judge said Monday. Circuit Judge Leroy ...

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the case of a convicted sex offender who claims a discarded state law clears him of his past crime and saves him from the sex-offender registry. Harold Kauble is petitioning ...

Two face robbery charges for stealing pickup Two Kansas City men face charges robbery charges for allegedly stealing a man’s vehicle after he offered to help them. Pedro F. Lopez, 43, and Gabino Santos, 36, were both charged with first-degree ...

State of judiciary speech also urges pay raises

The logo that ran with the column entitled ‘Lawyer gift cards have play, especially in Missouri’ in the Jan. 9 issue ran with the wrong byline and author photo. As noted at the bottom of the story, it was written ...

A Kansas City lawyer who had to sell his home because of mold and water damage agreed to settle his case against the insurer that refused to cover his losses. Louis Accurso, who sought more than $2 million, and Atlantic ...

The Senate voted to give U.S. Supreme Court justices and all other federal judges the same 1.7 percent pay hike that most federal government employees received Jan. 1. The Senate passed the cost-of-living increase on a voice vote and sent ...

President George W. Bush has picked veteran Republican legal adviser Fred Fielding to be White House counsel, a White House official said. Fielding, 67, replaces Harriet Miers, a longtime Bush aide whose resignation was announced Thursday. He served as President ...

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for more challenges to patents owned by brand-name drug maker Genentech and other companies, saying rivals can sue even if they are paying royalties to sell their version of the invention. The justices, ...

Charges brought against man for shooting that wounded two Jackson County prosecutors charged a Kansas City man with two counts of first-degree assault after allegedly shooting two people Sunday. According to a court records, police responded to a home in ...

After four years of protracted litigation and five weeks of trial, Fenton-based Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, has emerged with a confidential cash settlement and the satisfaction that a small business can take on an international behemoth in court. Originally ...