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The CBS-Viacom merger may have seemed like a profitable idea in 1999, but baggage left over from CBS’s Westinghouse Electric Corp. buyout has the communications company facing hefty environmental litigation. However, Viacom might be making some progress. Earlier this month, ...

A Kansas City school district alleged to have robbed a teacher of personal school supplies will not have to pay attorney fees for due process claims she brought against the district, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on ...

Because the state did not prove a mother was aware that her boyfriend posed an actual risk to her two year-old son’s life, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reduced her conviction from one count of first-degree ...

If a contract provides a specific arbitration location outside the state of Missouri, Missouri courts hold no jurisdiction over the matter, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, determined on Tuesday. The appellate court issued its decision after a company ...

Missouri Gov. Bob Holden signed into law on Friday a bill to reform Missouri trust law. The Missouri Uniform Trust Code, drafted by The Missouri Bar, is a comprehensive revision of Missouri’s trust code. It took four years for the ...

“Today I had a visit with a bunch of high schoolers as part of one of these congressional visit programs. I only had about 10 minutes with them so I skipped the formalities and said ‘ask what you want to ...

The window well in a car door is the latest addition to the list of areas that may be searched by police without a search warrant. On Tuesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court was ...

A court cannot terminate parental rights on grounds different from those stated in the termination petition, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, last Thursday. The child, born in 1993, stayed with her father on alternate weekends for the ...

American Bar Association President Dennis W. Archer strongly opposed any amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning same-sex marriage as unnecessary policy that tramples on the traditional authority of states to establish their own laws governing marriage. He called on U.S. ...

Although we rarely think about it, most Americans realize that our legal system stems from the same common law roots as several sister systems across the world, such as Canada, Scotland, Ireland, England, Austraiia, etc. Yet, most of us don’t ...

By Erin Suess Staff Writer Asbestos-damage suits have hit Westinghouse Electric Corp. hard in the past, but a finding by the Missouri Supreme Court that one of its insurers must pay for the years it insured Westinghouse might ease some ...