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A former fund-raiser for the University of Missouri-St. Louis has sued the school, claiming he was fired in August 2005 because of his age. He was 63 at the time of his termination. Dr. Norman Stewart was working on a ...

Wal-Mart Stores, North Fork Bancorp and eight other companies were sued by the sculptor who created the “Charging Bull” statue near Wall Street for unfairly profiting from his copyrighted work. Arturo Di Modica claimed the companies were selling knockoff copies ...

Behind every great company are some pretty talented people. Finding those talented people takes time and toil, which is why businesses commonly turn to staffing firms to fill some of their employment needs. According to the American Staffing Association, staffing ...

A disabled teacher who was granted a private bathroom as part of a settlement could not sue for retaliation after construction of the bathroom was delayed, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. The plaintiff argued that, despite ...

Proponents of a constitutional right to appointed counsel in civil cases got a glimmer of hope this week with a 4-3 Court of Appeals decision. The question of a right to “Civil Gideon” wasn’t really on the table in Tara ...

Maryland’s execution protocols are deeply flawed, and the people who carry them out are woefully under qualified, an attorney for death-row inmate Vernon L. Evans Jr. told a federal judge Monday. Evans is on death row for the 1983 contract ...

A lawyer for death row inmate Vernon L. Evans Jr. on Wednesday questioned one of the men who participate in Maryland executions, grilling him about his knowledge of the execution process. The witness, whose identity is under seal by U.S. ...

Some Twin Cities law firms have increased scrutiny in their hiring processes since last year, when Minnesota’s biggest law firm made the embarrassing discovery that an associate at the firm had forged her credentials and was not in fact a ...

A joyful event for Suzanne Sloane led indirectly to two years of misery. Sloane delivered her second child in June 2003 at Prince William Hospital in Manassas, Va., unaware that her last name would prove too big a temptation for ...

Something may not have smelled right about the six air fresheners a motorist had hanging from his rear-view mirror. But that factor – and the motorist’s nervousness during a traffic stop – did not rise to the level of suspicion ...