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When a Social Security recipient got a call from a collection agency trying to get him to pay off an old student loan, something didn’t sound right. So the man – who is blind, doesn’t own any real property and ...

Sprint settles age discrimination suit in federal court A federal judge approved Sprint Nextel’s $5.5 million settlement last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. According to court records, 462 former employees alleged the company ...

Bryan Cave and Cleveland-based Squire Sanders & Dempsey have called off their merger talks. Bryan Cave and Squire Sanders spokespeople said on Monday that the two firms had been in discussions but weren’t any more. The Bryan Cave spokesperson and ...

Penny Rogers was only 45 when she died from a pulmonary embolism in April 2001. Her husband, Richard, thought Penny’s doctor failed to recognize the warning signs. And in 2003 he filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Richard Blackburn, ...

The New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising, a body created by the state’s Supreme Court, recently issued an opinion forbidding attorneys from advertising that they are “Super Lawyers” or one of the “Best Lawyers in America.” The committee wrote in ...

The Oklahoma City University School of Law has launched a study-abroad program with a law school in China. An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, resulted from one year of negotiations for the Summer ...

Man charged for shooting friend in face on Friday A Blue Springs man was charged with first-degree assault for shooting a friend in the face early Friday morning. Allen M. Oldham, 44, allegedly got into a struggle with the victim ...

Jennifer Wieman went to law school to serve the public. But could she afford to? The former foster care program worker asked herself this during her first year at the University of Missouri School of Law. With student loans, rent ...

Attorneys for BP Corporation North America agreed to withdraw their notices of removal just days after their requests were made. Early last week lawyers for the oil giant filed petitions to remove 30 civil cases against the company to federal ...

A Missouri Public Service commissioner investigating whether AT&T violated the state’s privacy laws by turning over information to the National Security Agency said the investigation would continue until a judge said it must cease. The federal government filed a lawsuit ...

A 26-year-old former Marine corporal who will never walk again is suing restaurant owners and operators in St. Louis after storms two weeks ago caused the building’s structure to collapse on top of him. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in St. ...