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Jury finds drug dealer murdered Independence man A federal jury convicted a former Jackson County man Tuesday in the 1998 death of an Independence man. John “Phil” Street, 44, was found guilty of murdering Douglas C. Weil, whose body was ...

A Ford Shelby GT 500 is test driven over a wet track during the Dearborn Development Center 2007 Product Program earlier this year in Dearborn, Mich. A Mustang fan in St. Louis is suing a car dealer claiming the dealer ...

Rapper Kanye West faces a suit from daredevil Robert “Evel” Knievel over West’s music video for Touch the Sky. Knievel claimed West’s parody, in which a character similar to Knievel crashes while attempting a stunt, damaged his reputation and trademarks. ...

AT&T sues Time Warner for damage to phone network AT&T filed a lawsuit claiming its telephone lines were damaged when Time Warner’s cable unit hooked up customers to a competing phone service. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court ...

Former city employee claims race discrimination A former water services department employee has filed a race discrimination lawsuit against Kansas City. In her lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Lakiska Chatman claimed that she was subjected to verbal harassment ...

The U.S. Justice Department made it tougher for the government to force companies to disclose confidential communications with their lawyers, revising its guidelines for prosecutors investigating corporate wrongdoing. The guidance also limits prosecutors’ power to demand that companies cut off ...

Personal injury attorneys increasingly have to resort to litigation as the result of liability insurers’ reliance on a software program that spits out settlement values for bodily injury claims and leaves little room for variance. Insurers have used Colossus in ...

A requested survey of the federal judiciary will attempt to determine whether courthouses are being overbuilt. Congress asked the judiciary to document how often the country’s 500 buildings that house at least one federal courtroom are in use to determine ...

The plain language of a divorce decree settled a dispute between two insurers. A federal judge in Kansas City awarded summary judgment to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, despite the fact that it insured Julie Ann Richardson, whose son ...

Kansas City attorneys say they took the time to prepare for the Dec. 1 e-discovery rules. Federal court, such as the Charles Evans Whitaker Courthouse, rules changed to require attorneys to know more about their clients’ electronic information. Photo by ...

Supreme Court reinstates conviction in button case The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a California murder conviction that had been overturned because the dead man’s relatives wore buttons bearing his picture during the trial. The justices said a federal appeals court ...