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In the first state supreme court decision on the issue since a landmark 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Ohio’s highest court explicitly rejected the use of economic benefit as the sole justification for a city’s exercise of its eminent domain ...

Starbucks Corp. lost a request to dismiss a New York jury’s award to a lawyer who suffered second-degree burns and permanent nerve damage from a cup of spilled coffee. Manhattan State Supreme Court Judge Emily Jane Goodman denied Starbucks’ request ...

Best Buy faces allegations that it failed to protect a former employee who claimed she was repeatedly sexually harassed by her boss. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Jessica L. ...

A Blue Springs man who was allegedly found peering through a window of a 6-year-old girl’s bedroom has been charged by Jackson County prosecutors. Shane B. Oliver, 38, faces charges of first-degree sexual misconduct and sexual misconduct involving a child. ...

Richard C. Miller, a lawyer of 25 years and a founder of the law firm Monsees, Miller, Mayer, Presley & Amick, died Tuesday from complications from a brain tumor. He was 50. Miller was diagnosed with cancer Aug. 6, according ...

If you’re a real estate lawyer, how you’re faring this year depends on where you practice and what area of real estate you specialize in. David Kenner, a real estate attorney for Levy & Craig in Kansas City, said the ...

Because federal sentencing guidelines are now only advisory, a change that increases the guidelines range is no longer an ex post facto law and can be applied to a defendant who committed her crime before the change. The landmark holding ...

Skilled talent is hard to find. Just ask Harriet Brenner and her business partner Ellen Birch, owners of Hicksville, N.Y.-based Realtime Reporting, a provider of court-reporting services. Rather than gripe about a shortage of qualified court reporters, they took action. ...

Five product liability lawsuits against drug maker Merck & Co. were removed to the U.S. District Court in St. Louis last week, and Merck attorneys plan to seek transfer of the cases to the federal court in the Eastern District ...

Two teens charged with murdering a Grain Valley woman were ordered Tuesday to remain in detention. Taylor Marquez and Edward George, both 16 and charged in the murder of Marquez’s mother, had brief and separate appearances before Commissioner Molly Merrigan ...

A woman injured in a 2001 traffic accident lost her lawsuit against the cab company that was transporting her at the time of the crash. Pamela Thomas sued Metro Transport and its driver, William Hudson, under a common carrier doctrine ...