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In the first criminal case before the newly formed U.S. Supreme Court, the justices debated the standard a state may impose on searches of its parolees. The state of California defended its right to regulate parolees, whose status accords them ...

A heavily traveled section of Oak Street will be reduced to two lanes of traffic in order to perform storm sewer and water line construction. The reduction from Truman Road to 13th Street comes less than two months after the ...

When Gulf Coast reconstruction begins in earnest – presumably by the third quarter of this year – the building industry should brace for double-digit cost increases and tightening labor supplies through 2008, according to at least one industry observer. John ...

The marks appeared like mysterious halos. Perfect green circles were scattered like a fungal ring toss gone awry across the graying gypsum board on the ceiling. The team of forensic investigators had never seen anything like it. They had arrived ...

Several years ago, Benjamin H. Hill III defended a malpractice claim lodged against a Florida personal injury defense lawyer by the insurance company that had hired him Hill, an attorney in Tampa, Fla., successfully argued that there was no direct ...

When the validity of an entire contract is challenged, and not simply an arbitration clause contained in it, that issue must be decided by an arbitrator, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. After borrowing money from a payday lender, the ...

Nearly two-thirds of business travelers are taking fewer trips and almost eight in 10 say they are interested in alternatives to traveling, but meeting via technology isn’t quite ready to replace face-to-face encounters. The practical problems associated with video conferencing ...

An incomplete blow into a breathalyzer is tantamount to a refusal and punishable by license suspension, according to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. There were a couple of errors the Western District corrected in Garrell R. Bogart v. ...

Will statewide franchise agreements with competitive video service providers save consumers money because it would encourage competition? Or will the statewide franchise agreement ultimately cost consumers more because it would relax some rate protections in the cable industry? Senate Bill ...

Each of the nine justices of the new U.S. Supreme Court got involved in the case of Holmes v. South Carolina, debating the state’s evidentiary standard for the introduction of evidence of third-party guilt. In 1989, Bobby Lee Holmes was ...

You don’t even have to be driving to lose your license for DUI under the jurisdiction of the Missouri Courts. Since the defendant failed to rebut the director of revenue’s prima facie case, the Western District Court of Appeals said ...