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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on whether a St. Louis County trial court correctly admitted into evidence the 66.5-pound fruits of a vehicle search triggered by a suspicious hairstyling comment. Defendant Kersten Sund could face deportation ...

Cooperation. Mothers teach it to their children, but it can lead to problems for drivers who are pulled over by the police. So says Kansas City attorney Jeffrey Eastman, of Keleher & Eastman, whose main message is drivers have the ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s general counsel and his top deputy may be excluded from probes into the collapse of Amaranth Advisors and stock-options backdating at Broadcom Corp. because of potential conflicts of interest. General Counsel Brian Cartwright represented ...

Wal-Mart Stores lost a Pennsylvania lawsuit that accused the world’s largest retailer of violating state labor laws by forcing employees to work through rest breaks and off the clock. A state court jury in Philadelphia on Thursday sided with two ...

Congress had the authority to divert about $422.5 million in U.S. patent fees to purposes including subsidies for the oil industry, a federal appeals court ruled, rejecting a lawsuit that challenged the practice. Miguel Figueroa, a plumber-turned-inventor from Puerto Rico, ...

Intel Corp., the world’s largest computer chipmaker, was sued by competitor Transmeta Corp. for infringing 10 patents covering power-efficiency and microprocessor innovations. Transmeta, a semiconductor-design company whose investors included billionaires George Soros and Paul Allen, filed a complaint in federal ...

Additional murder charges filed in botched burglary A second man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder stemming from a botched home invasion in March. Charles V. Williams, 18, of Kansas City, was allegedly part of a group ...

Seven associates joined Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in the firm’s Kansas City office. Sudee Mirsafian Wright joined the litigation department. She received her juris doctorate from Chicago Kent College of Law. Sharon J. Murry-Roberts, who joined the litigation department, earned ...

A Kansas City woman claims an untreated pressure sore caused her father’s death five years ago. Though Herman G. Bell died when he was given too much Versed before a treatment, Sheila Battles alleged her father would not have been ...

Wyeth persuaded a Pennsylvania judge to throw out a $1.5 million award to a woman who claimed the drug maker’s menopause medicines caused her cancer. Judge Norman Ackerman in Philadelphia declared a mistrial Wednesday without explanation and discarded the Oct. ...

A Philadelphia jury began deliberating a lawsuit that accuses Wal-Mart Stores of forcing some employees to skip rest and meal breaks in violation of state labor laws. The 12-member jury asked for two Wal-Mart documents Wednesday about two hours after ...