A St. Louis judge signed off on a consent agreement between a group of St. Louis police officers and the Board of Police Commissioners, with the board agreeing not to release documents generated during an internal affairs investigation into theft and the misuse of tickets to the 2006 World Series.
Read More »Norton appointed bankruptcy judge
Kansas bankruptcy attorney Cynthia Norton will take the bench as a bankruptcy judge for the Western District of Missouri on Feb. 1.
Read More »Obama NLRB recess appointments invalid, court says
President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board last year were “constitutionally invalid” because the Senate wasn’t in recess at the time, a federal appeals court ruled.
Read More »1st Circuit: Disability insurance covers addict’s risk of relapse
A recovered addict’s risk of relapse constituted a “current disability” that triggered her entitlement to long-term disability benefits, the 1st Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
Read More »Group says it lost TIF battle but will win war
Adolphus Busch IV acknowledges his environmental group lost its legal battle to prevent the city of St. Peters from using tax-increment financing (TIF) to subsidize development in a floodplain.
Read More »Fed economist tells Realtors St. Louis housing market ‘still soft’
The St. Louis region’s housing market is “still soft” even though sales volume is on the rise, William R. Emmons told a crowd of more than 100 people who gathered Thursday morning at the Realtors association’s headquarters in St. Louis County. “I think we’re going to bounce along the bottom for a while,” he added.
Read More »Jury awards $2.85M to family of woman who committed suicide in Sullivan jail
Karen Palmer hanged herself in her cell with the string from her hooded sweatshirt in October 2009, according to court documents. Her parents and her daughter sued the city and its police officers in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri.
Read More »Medicaid fraud unit raked in $50M in 2012
The Medicaid fraud control unit collected more than $50 million last year, Attorney General Chris Koster said.
Read More »Commentary: Te’o joins Notre Dame’s long tradition of hooey
Whatever else Manti Te’o manages to accomplish in his interview with Katie Couric, the humiliated Notre Dame linebacker will at least be proving Karl Marx right: All historical events really do occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce.
Read More »Victim tied to 1998 Sandusky abuse sues Penn State
Pennsylvania State University was sued by one of the victims of sex abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and accused of hiding what it knew about the threat he posed to children.
Read More »Chief Justice Teitelman lauds drug courts in state of the judiciary speech
Chief Justice Richard Teitelman on Wednesday used his last state of the judiciary speech to thank lawmakers for their support of specialized courts.
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