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Like several other states, Missouri for years provided women an automatic exemption from jury duty based solely on gender. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled nearly 30 years ago that a Missouri law making that exception was unconstitutional. But a casual ...

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Interstate Bakeries, makers of Hostess Twinkies, plans to reduce its nine-member board to five and replace some existing members. The company agreed with shareholders to end litigation by restructuring the company’s leadership. Photo by Tina Fineberg/Bloomberg News Interstate Bakeries Corp., ...

Matthew C. Moschella has something in common with a lot of other young attorneys working at large law firms: Since joining his firm two years ago, he has yet to try a single case. In fact, it’s not just young ...

An Ameriprise Financial subsidiary must pay as much as $9.3 million to three retired American Airlines pilots who claimed a broker squandered their retirement savings on mutual funds with high fees and trading costs, an NASD arbitration panel said. Ameriprise’s ...

An insurance salesman who died in a Marietta, Ga., hotel fire after attending a company meeting was covered by workers’ compensation — even though the seminar ended the day before the fire, the commission has ruled. In a Dec. 7 ...

Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other defendants agreed to pay Ohio state pension funds $4.5 million to settle any liability related to the fraud that destroyed Enron Corp. five years ago. The funds, which balked at joining an earlier ...

Time Warner settles lawsuit over AOL-Homestore deals Time Warner, the world’s largest media company, agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit against its America Online unit over so-called round-trip transactions with Homestore. Terms will be disclosed later, Keith Cocozza, a spokesman ...

Novartis, Europe’s third-biggest drug maker, sued a Baxter International unit claiming it is cutting off supplies of the only drug approved to treat canine Addison’s disease, a sometimes fatal glandular disorder in dogs. Novartis Animal Health US, based in Greensboro, ...

A Johnson & Johnson unit misled Texas health officials about the risks of an antipsychotic drug to increase prescriptions, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit joined by the state attorney general. The suit claims that Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutica caused ...

At the end of this year, Judge Donald J. Stohr will retire from the active bench but continue to serve as a senior judge. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the U.S. District Court of the Eastern ...