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The city of St. Charles lost before the Missouri Supreme Court its constitutional challenge to a 2002 law that restricts the use of tax-increment financing. The law was part of Senate Bill 1107, which was written to revise laws pertaining ...

Did he quit, or was he fired? That was the question facing the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, which determined that a Proctor & Gamble employee who voluntarily took an early-retirement package could not also receive unemployment benefits. “There ...

Travel insurance is becoming as common among globetrotters as passports and luggage, according to a recent study. More than 17 million Americans spent better than $1 billion on travel insurance in 2004, according to Avalon Actuarial Consulting, an independent Canadian ...

The all or nothing approach to involuntarily committing sexual predators post-prison needs to be changed, says the public defender who watched the Western District Court of Appeals throw away the key on his client. Now don’t get Emmett Queener wrong. ...

Last month, Seattle-based Plum Creek Timber Co. announced plans for a major development project involving more than 420,000 acres of land in the Moosehead Lake Region of western Maine. What has surprised many, however, is that the bulk of Plum ...

A Jackson County jury found the country’s second-largest automaker not accountable for a crash that claimed the life of a Missouri state trooper and severely injured another. Jurors cleared Ford Motor Co. but blamed the driver of a Trade Winds ...

Four men convicted of sexually abusing five of their nieces will continue to do time in prison after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, looking at the case for the third time, said the children’s recantations were not credible ...

Solo and small-firm lawyers from around the state gathered last weekend at the Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake of the Ozarks to share business cards and tips of the trade. For many legal practitioners, The Missouri Bar’s 10th annual ...

For the fourth year in a row, a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives has backed legislation to permanently prevent banking conglomerates from entering the real estate brokerage and property management business. The Community Choice in Real Estate Act ...

There is still a chance that the federal rules blocking unsolicited business faxes won’t come into effect July 1. The new Federal Communication Commission rules would make faxing advertisements illegal without first gaining the recipient’s permission. The rule change is ...

Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin today will be the first Kansas City law firm to receive the Facet of Excellence Award for Employee Development. The award is part of Kansas City’s Human Resources Management Association’s Paragon Award Program, which recognizes overall ...