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Next week, be prepared for small, unexpected rifts in time to cast important legal documents back to January 2006. Don’t fret too much. A slap to the forehead, exclamation of “Doh!” and a scribbled correction will bring that personal check ...

Among the cases D & B Legal Services’ Bill Powell has investigated is the drug-dilution case of pharmacist Robert Courtney. Powell said his work changed every day. “It’s a new world every time you wake up in the morning,” he ...

Jackson County Prosecutor Mike Sanders on Thursday announces Melissa Mauer-Smith, left, as interim prosecutor beginning Tuesday, when he will become county executive. Sanders said Mauer-Smith was selected partly because she had not applied for the permanent position. Mauer-Smith, whom Sanders ...

Second K.C. man pleads guilty to identity theft A Kansas City man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to participating in an identity theft conspiracy. Charles W. Vann, 32, admitted he was involved in using stolen information and counterfeit Kansas ...

Illinois judge dismisses Taser liability death suit Taser International, the world’s largest maker of stun guns, said an Illinois judge dismissed a product-liability case involving a man who died after police shocked him with the device. The Circuit Court of ...

Enrollment of women at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School has taken a different turn from the school’s undergraduate trend. Female enrollment at the law school has hovered about 42 percent for three years, according to Debbie Brooks, assistant ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday that U.S. prosecutors could keep records related to an investigation of Major League Baseball players’ steroid use. Barry Bonds testified before a 2004 grand jury saying he did not ...

ABA releases judicial conduct code proposal on Web site A final proposal for substantive changes in the Model Code of Judicial conduct is posted on the American Bar Association Web site for review, ABA officials say. The 180-page report will ...

Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, left, pleads guilty before Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., federal court in this April 22, 2005, sketch. University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School professor Doug Linder has included a page on Moussaoui’s case on his ...

A federal appeals court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to change certain air-pollution standards for ozone, saying the current rules don’t comply with the Clean Air Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided ...

Mortgage lender Washington Mutual must pay a former employee $1.2 million because it fired her for warning her supervisors about risky loans, an administrative law judge ruled. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News Washington Mutual was ordered to pay a former ...