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President George W. Bush and the U.S. National Security Agency are the targets of subpoenas demanding access to executive orders that established a domestic telephone call eavesdropping program, two New Jersey lawyers said. Princeton attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran ...

Ameriquest Mortgage Co., which earlier this year settled claims of deceptive lending practices in 49 states, faces a new set of legal problems with a class action lawsuit filed last week in Baltimore Circuit Court. According to the complaint, Ameriquest ...

A teenage girl who reunited with her father last year after a decade in foster care sued Los Angeles County for taking so long to bring them together. County supervisors said last September that the reunion of Melinda Smith, now ...

Judicial panel submits nominees to Gov. Blunt The Appellate Judicial Commission submitted nominees to fill the vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District to Gov. Matt Blunt on Tuesday. The names sent to Blunt were M. Susan Appelquist, ...

Judges in Jackson County up for retention this year have received the approval of the attorneys who practice before them. The judicial evaluations, which were released Tuesday, were done to provide voters with background information before they go to the ...

This year’s surveys of nonpartisan judges in Missouri included juror input for the first time. Every juror who heard a trial in St. Louis County Circuit Court in the past 12 months was invited to evaluate the judge presiding over ...

A federal judge has cleared the way for an employment discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to go to trial. Plaintiffs Gena Duckworth and Tamatha Fisher, both city police officers, and Sandra Delaney, a former city police ...

H&R Block, the biggest U.S. tax preparer, won approval of a $39 million settlement of a lawsuit in which customers claimed they were misled about loans based on anticipated tax refunds. U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo in Chicago approved an ...

In a products liability suit alleging that a defective car ignition switch resulted in a fatal fire, the plaintiff could introduce evidence of other “accidents, incidents, claims and lawsuits” and the car manufacturer’s investigation of those claims, a Rhode Island ...

A products liability suit over a Ford Explorer that crashed on Interstate 385 in South Carolina after the cruise control malfunctioned has resulted in an $18 million verdict against the SUV’s manufacturer. A Greenville County, S.C., jury awarded $15 million ...

Teva settles OxyContin patent lawsuit with Purdue Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic drug maker, said it would continue to sell a version of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin painkiller for an undisclosed period after settling a lawsuit. The agreement will ...