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A gun-wielding Prince George’s County, Md., bank robber was not entitled to question potential jurors about gun bias because an affirmative response would not have provided a basis for a strike for cause, the Court of Appeals held Monday in ...

A husband who sued his wife for limited divorce based on constructive desertion is entitled to pursue that action – and seek custody and visitation of the parties’ children – even though the couple continued to live together, the Maryland ...

Service of process on a South Carolina woman was ineffective – even though the process server left the papers at her front door, thinking she was inside the residence and refused to answer his calls, the Supreme Court ruled last ...

Seven years and two trials after a Joplin couple died in 1999 from carbon monoxide poisoning, the couple’s survivors finally received closure with $13 million awarded by a St. Louis jury. Thursday’s verdict arrived after four days of deliberation and ...

Lawbby.com – a sort of MySpace for the legal profession – has caused a fair amount of head scratching since it was launched three months ago. Designed as a social network for attorneys to post personal and professional profiles, Lawbby ...

A teenage boy injured when a hunting rifle accidentally discharged settled his lawsuit against the firearm manufacturer for $357,500 and court costs. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry approved the settlement on Friday. The boy, who lives outside Kennett in the ...

A Virginia Beach, Va., Circuit Court jury on July 21 awarded a family $1.5 million because a doctor failed to diagnose cancer. Paul Vaughan, a stay-at-home dad in Virginia Beach, had a raw spot that wouldn’t heal in the nail ...

A Belleville, Ill., couple faced a St. Louis cardiologist Monday in a wrongful death trial in St. Louis County Circuit Court over the death of their son. Robert Hicks Jr. died in November 2001 of a pulmonary embolism four days ...

Correction In Wednesday’s edition the article “Jury finds grocery owners not responsible for assault” should have listed the defendant as General Store No. 2 doing business as Marsh’s Sun Fresh Market. Stepfather faces child molestation charges Jackson County prosecutors charged ...

Photo by Amy L. Schmitz Juror Bob Villiard takes a smoke and lunch break Wednesday at the southeast corner of the Jackson County Courthouse, the designated smoking area for the courthouse. A Kansas City ordinance prohibiting smoking in all public ...

Winstona Cole’s clients were distraught. The Sudanese brothers had lived as refugees in Maryland for a year in spring 2005 and were eligible to apply for permanent U.S. residency. The immigration attorneys they inquired with to prepare and file the ...