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The St. Louis City Judicial Commission announced on Tuesday the panel of three nominees to be submitted to Gov. Holden to fill the vacancy on the St. Louis Circuit Court created by the appointment of Judge Patricia L. Cohen to ...

Gov. Holden and House Republicans traded accusations Monday about who is to blame for cuts in education. Holden defended his withholdings to education against Republican calls for him to release more money for education. “It is ludicrous,” Holden said. “Contentions ...

A prior guilty plea in a military court martial may be used for sentence enhancement, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. In a 4-3 decision, the court upheld the Carroll County Circuit Court’s decision in October 2001 to impose two ...

After five years as the executive director of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and 25 years providing legal help for the poor, F. Dianne Taylor has turned in her resignation. Taylor will head the program through the end of the ...

As Missouri’s economy has evolved, its tax laws have not. The result: businesses that operate under the tax radar while state coffers remain dry. Missouri’s economy has shifted gradually from being based on manufacturing goods to providing services. The state ...

Lawyers who haven’t filed a case in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District, in about six months may be in for a shock when they find the court has gone live with mandatory electronic case filing. Nationwide, more that 40,000 ...

A planned lawsuit against the state’s system for financing local schools is dividing Missouri’s school districts. Although the lawsuit is being prepared by a group of more than 200 districts, other districts warn that a successful lawsuit could lead to ...

American Bar Association President Dennis W. Archer Jr. announced the appointment of a Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, chaired by Mark I. Harrison of Phoenix, to review the ABA’s model ethics code for judges and ...

The Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri gave a man charged with sale of a controlled substance a second chance to withdraw his guilty plea. Jon E. Reed pled guilty to a class B felony sale of ...

Cathy (not her real name) works as a legal assistant for a well-known St. Louis law firm. As a single mother, this 27-year-old woman realizes that she and others in her situation have to make some sacrifices in life just ...

A St. Louis County trial court’s decision to deny a mother’s motion to withdraw her consent to terminate parental rights was reversed by the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday. In denying the mother’s motion to ...