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The Western District Court of Appeals put a couple of people back on the hook in a wrongful death case stemming from a rear-end collision in St. Clair County. The case Cindy Firestone v. Anthony VanHolt, Diane VanHolt and Susan ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided on Monday, in the case International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 1; Robert Anderson, v. GKN Aerospace North America Inc., St. Louis, that a labor dispute should not proceed to arbitration ...

It wasn’t a top story for many media outlets, but earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission loosened some of the major functions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was set up to promote competition among large and small ...

The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and the Association of Women Lawyers have combined to raise $75,000 for Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocates. The money, which was presented at the recent KCMBA Annual Meeting, will help CASA fund its ...

A Florida Supreme Court ruling could clear the way for trials on about 3,000 secondhand smoke claims by flight attendants. In an order issued Nov. 28, Florida’s highest court declined to review a Florida Court of Appeal decision upholding a ...

Lawyers who handle financial information are not required to send privacy notices to their clients, the D.C. Circuit has ruled in affirming a U.S. District Court. This is the first circuit to rule on this issue, which has been of ...

An electric company had no duty to inform emergency personnel that a power line draped over a wrecked car was de-energized, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. An automobile veered out of control and struck an electric power pole owned ...

Fiscal concerns are present in every city. The increased cost of utilities and health care, providing public services within the limits of revenue growth and maintaining capital reserve accounts are common issues in budget meetings. But a recent Jackson County ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about whether a challenge to the validity of a contract as a whole invalidates the contract’s arbitration clause. After borrowing money from a payday lender, John Cardegna sued the company, Buckeye Check ...

In a letter to members of the House of Representatives, the American Bar Association is warning that several key provisions in an immigration bill expected to reach a House vote by week’s end “may have serious, even life-threatening consequences.” The ...

The end result of a partial reversal in a drug case really had no net effect since two of the counts – and the concurrent sentences – stood after the Western District Court of Appeals reviewed the case. Shane M. ...