Indian tribes nationwide are mounting forces against a recent National Labor Relations Board decision they claim has the power to infringe on years of tribal government sovereignty by allowing unions to organize employees of on-reservation tribal businesses. In 2004, the ...
Read More »St. Louis City Circuit Court judges vote for hybrid docket system
In a tense bid for compromise Monday, St. Louis City Circuit Court judges voted 25 votes to 6 to adopt a hybrid docketing system that expands individual dockets to 18 divisions, effective Jan. 1. Divisions 1 and 2 will retain ...
Read More »Parties settle suit as jury deliberates wrongful death case
The two-week wrongful death trial of a respirator manufacturer accused of making a defective alarm system worn by firefighters ended Friday with a settlement in the St. Louis Circuit Court. Laura Morrison, the widow of St. Louis firefighter Robert Morrison, ...
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Two men now accused of murder in meth trafficking A Kansas City man has been indicted by a federal grand jury as a co-defendant in the 1998 murder of an Independence man to prevent the victim from cooperating with law ...
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Wyeth suit goes to Philadelphia jury Wyeth lawyers urged a Philadelphia jury to reject a woman’s claims that the hormone drugs Premarin and Prempro caused her breast cancer, ending a two-week trial. Jennie Nelson, 67, of Dayton, Ohio, sued Wyeth ...
Read More »Jury awards $4.5 million for hog stench
In one of the largest verdicts of its kind, a Jackson County jury returned a $4.5 million verdict on Friday in favor of three northwest Missouri families. The families, who each received $1.5 million, complained that hog confinements operated by ...
Read More »Former police informant appeals decision for Kansas City detectives
A Kansas City man who lost his malicious prosecution case against two detectives in June is appealing to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. Joe Bednar, the attorney for appellant Oren Gamble, claimed the judge at Gamble’s trial failed ...
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Former employee sues Bob Evans for strip-search Bob Evans Restaurant and an assistant manager at its Lee’s Summit business are facing allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Kathy Kraner, who bused tables at the restaurant, claimed in ...
Read More »Shughart employment symposium addresses recent change, trends
The message was pretty clear at Shughart Thomson & Kilroy’s 2006 Labor, Employment and Benefits Symposium on Thursday. It is not easy to own or operate a business these days. A dozen of Shughart’s lawyers and Victoria Lipnic, U.S. assistant ...
Read More »Deliberations begin
A jury will determine whether several families in northwestern Missouri are entitled to damages for their alleged suffering caused by hog confinements built near their homes. Jurors heard closing arguments Friday morning and began their deliberations that afternoon. A verdict ...
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Technology chairmen must mediate, judge says Broadcom Corp. Chairman Henry Samueli and Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs must appear together before a U.S. magistrate to try to settle patent disputes over mobile-phone chip technology. The two men will meet Oct. 4 ...
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