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Vectra Bank’s corporate economist Jeff Thredgold has released his semi-annual update of “Happy Talk.” If the name isn’t enough, it’s basically a listing of what is “good” economically – as opposed to the “bad” news that normally gets the biggest ...

Public employees have reason to rejoice since the Western District Court of Appeals adopted the federal court’s “repudiation exemption” for pension accrual cases. This is the second go around at the appellate division for Margaret Lane et al v. Non-Teacher ...

It is well-settled in Missouri that to sue the Highway and Transportation Commission, a plaintiff’s lawyer must first get past sovereign immunity. One way to do that is to carve out a claim under the dangerous-condition exception, but simply alleging ...

When the feature film “The Game of Their Lives” debuted a few months ago, it garnered a fair amount of publicity throughout Missouri, in part because it was shot mostly in the St. Louis area and also because it told ...

Guilty as charged, said the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming a three-count drug-dealing conviction last Tuesday brought on as the result of a warrantless arrest. But the decision left one judge on the three-judge panel balking at ...

Republican Gov. Matt Blunt’s administration wants Missouri officials to do a better job of selling itself to the business community. To accomplish that goal, the state’s Department of Economic Development announced a major reorganization that borrows some business practices from ...

Conventional wisdom says the traditional pension plan went the way of the dodo bird and the woolly mammoth two decades ago, being replaced by 401(k)s and other popular profit-sharing plans. But according to lawyers and financial-services professionals, traditional pension plans ...

The Western District Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s suppression of most statements and tipped off the defense attorney on ways to get the admitted statements tossed. Here’s what happened in this interlocutory appeal in State of Missouri v. ...

A state criminal restitution order is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. The debtor, a developer, diverted $20,000 paid to him to build a house into other projects. The home owner lodged a criminal complaint, but before ...

A St. Louis County jury found a St. Louis doctor and hospital not at fault for the death of a patient whose aorta was punctured as part of a pacemaker placement surgery. The plaintiff had demanded $1.5 million at trial ...

When it comes to talking about sustainable construction in the residential home market, mortgage specialist and green-building advocate Dave Porter is quick to dispel any preconceived notions or misconceptions. “It’s not about granola bars and hemp-thatched roofs,” said Porter, vice ...