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Countrywide Financial Corp. will repay minority borrowers in New York after the company charged them more than whites for loans. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said this was the first settlement of a regulatory inquiry related to the Home ...

In some products liability cases, the plaintiff can obtain a res ipsa loquitur instruction, but that’s not the case in claiming that an airbag deployed prematurely after the car hit a pothole, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ...

St. Louis sheriff deputies escort prisoners to circuit court divisions last week. A recent changeover to a new computer system in the St. Louis Division of Corrections made for two weeks of delays and headaches for prisoners, judges and attorneys. ...

Wrestling coach pleads guilty to molesting minors on bus trip A girls youth wrestling coach pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to sexually molesting minors aboard a charter bus traveling through Missouri on its return trip to Texas. Timothy Daniel ...

Robert Popper, left, and his wife, Mary Ann, speak to guests, including University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Dean Ellen Suni, far right, at a reception in the student lounge before a tribute to Popper Monday evening. Before a ...

The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association is expecting a record turnout for Thursday’s annual luncheon. A sold-out crowd of 880 people is expected to fill the ballroom at the Marriott Downtown’s Muehlebach Tower for the 122nd annual meeting, according to ...

Wyeth was sued by five women who claim the fen-phen diet combination caused them to develop an often-fatal lung disease at least eight years after they stopped taking the drugs. Renee Tedesco, of Paramus, N.J., says in one of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put an end to an Oklahoma Supreme Court justice’s age discrimination lawsuit against his fellow court justices, a case that has garnered national attention. “I was very disappointed but not shocked,” Oklahoma Justice Marion ...

The American Bar Association should not be allowed to remain the only national group recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit law schools, the associate dean of the Massachusetts School of Law said Monday. Appearing before the National ...

Southwest Baptist University sued by photographer Southwest Baptist University faces accusations that it did not follow through with an agreement when it printed photographs in promotional materials. Tammy Jackson, of Stockton, sued the university in U.S. District Court in Kansas ...

Wearing clothing featuring the Confederate flag is a political cause for Bryce Archambo, a high school student in Farmington, Mo., and he is now out of school because of it. Archambo’s parents pulled him from Farmington High School in late ...