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Construction activity in July predicts a positive outlook for near-term residential and non-residential building despite the month’s mixed home sales figures, several national reports indicated last week. McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics reported last Wednesday that residential construction activity stayed high and ...

In a year when design firms generated $24.15 billion in revenues outside their home countries, St. Louis-based HOK was the top-ranked architect-engineer in international design for 2004. That’s according to a newly published survey of international design firms by Engineering ...

For teenagers across the country, the term “jury of your peers” has taken on an important meaning. Teen courts – known in some states as youth courts – provide an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system, handling cases where ...

Lawyer Gary M. Young is “in awe” of anyone who goes straight from law school into his or her own solo practice. For him, two decades of practice with Madison, Wisc.’s Stafford Rosenbaum L.L.P. was invaluable experience with regard to ...

Federal pesticide law and regulations do not preempt state law tort claims brought by a man allegedly injured while using a pesticide, the 8th Circuit has ruled. The plaintiff claimed he became seriously ill after using a pesticide designed to ...

Dec. 31 is the deadline for expiring tax breaks and changes for corporate status. One expiring deduction is the credit for hiring individuals whose wages qualify for the “welfare-to-work tax credit.” The welfare-to-work deduction is a federal income tax credit ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in Arkansas against tobacco giant Philip Morris belongs in federal court because the company’s method of testing the amount of tar and nicotine in its light cigarettes was directed by the Federal Trade Commission, said the ...

Jesse Gelsinger was 18 years old and suffering from a rare liver disorder when he entered a gene transfer clinical trial at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He died on his fourth day in the study, following a gene ...

The personal digital assistant is gaining momentum as businesses move from the big screens of computers to the mini-screens of handheld devices. A study by Canalys, a high-tech market research company, revealed that global shipments of PDAs or what the ...

In a highly unusual move the Western District Court of Appeals took up a workers’ compensation case en banc and out of the blue. Olathe attorney Steven Alberg argued the plaintiff’s case in Mark Custer v. Hartford Insurance Co. before ...