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A series of inconsistencies compelled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment grant to a rent-a-car company charged with sexual harassment and retaliation. Wednesday’s decision in Terri Wallace v. DTG Operations Inc, a foreign corporation ...

The Missouri attorney general’s office plans to lobby the legislature to fix a law that allowed a repeat domestic abuser a break on his prison sentence. The Western District Court of Appeals reversed and remanded in part the case of ...

In January, Cole County Senior Judge Byron Kinder upheld the proposed ballot language on the Missouri Stem Cells Research and Cures Initiative. Kinder has his own senior court docket with 60 to 100 cases a year in the 19th Circuit. ...

Microsoft is hoping to rock the computing world with the launch of its Windows Vista operating system software, but just how earthshaking the new program will be is open to debate. The release of Vista has been looked to with ...

Judges in the Western District Court of Appeals likely had to dust off their science books to determine that a ballot initiative regarding stem cell research may be put to voters in November. The court had to walk a fine ...

An audit of the Kansas City Municipal Division released last week identifies a number of problems. The audit, performed by Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill, shows that some offenders are released from probation without paying restitution and also noted other ...

In a hard-fought defense win that Wyeth hopes will help turn the fen-phen lawsuit tide in its favor, a Jasper County jury found for the drug manufacturer in a products liability claim. After a two-week trial, jurors deliberated for a ...

The Western District Court of Appeals put a bank back on the hook for additional damages and fees when it declared the buyer had the right to assert claims under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The court partly reversed a ...

Many law firms have come to realize that legal seminars for existing and potential clients can be excellent business-development tools. But the sheer physical logistics of attendingseminars – travel, time and expense – are often impediments that can dampen interest ...

After developing the art of the deal, Donald Trump may have fine-tuned the art of dismissal. He stares ahead in a board room and with a targeted precision issues a decision to send an employee packing. It’s over in seconds, ...

Where one spouse consents to search of a home, but the other spouse objects, the objection trumps the consent. The U.S. Supreme Court on March 22 abrogated a host of holdings by U.S. Circuit Courts and state supreme courts in ...