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A recent North Carolina decision sounds a strong warning for attorneys who conduct legal matters by e-mail — always, always open the attachments. A lawyer who failed to do that — and didn’t realize an e-mail’s attachments included confidential information ...

Attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of helping an extremist Egyptian cleric pass messages from prison urging his followers on the outside to launch terrorist attacks, was sentenced to 28 months behind bars. Stewart, 67, was charged with aiding the ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, found guilty in April on corruption charges, will have to fight to overturn his conviction from prison, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in Chicago denied a request by Ryan’s lawyers ...

Supreme Court rejects Scout leader on marina access The U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene on behalf of a Boy Scout program that was denied free marina access in Berkeley, Calif., because the group excludes atheists and avowed homosexuals. The ...

Armstrong Teasdale adds West Coast offices The attorneys of Senn Meulemans, a San Francisco-based law firm with offices in Las Vegas and Reno, Nev., joined Armstrong Teasdale. Kevin Senn, Catherine S. Meulemans and Richard G. Campbell joined St. Louis-based Armstrong ...

A Kansas City grocery store has agreed to pay for injuries a woman suffered in a Valentine’s Day trip and fall. Minutes before jury selection was scheduled to begin Tuesday, Sonia Pineda accepted a $20,000 offer from Marsh’s Apple Market, ...

The Missouri Bar’s Animal Law Committee doesn’t want to change the definitions of animal care and control; it just wants to make the definitions consistent with their appearance in the state’s animal neglect statute. The Board of Governors voted to ...

Wal-Mart owes its hourly employees in Pennsylvania $78 million for unpaid rest breaks and hours worked beyond their regular shifts, a jury ruled Friday in a class action lawsuit. Jurors in state court in Philadelphia assessed the damages after two ...

She was supposed to have knee surgery in the morning and walk out of the hospital that afternoon. But Amanda Smith never regained consciousness. Smith, 59, soon died from her brain crushing against her skull after her blood pressure spiked ...

An employer who offered his employees rides to work on an icy day wasn’t just being nice — he was also benefiting the company, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled last week. Therefore, an employee is entitled to file ...

County jury finds man guilty of raping, sodomizing tenant A Jackson County jury last week found Tommy N. Bien guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at her home more than two years ago. Bien was convicted of two counts of ...