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Read More »Dowd to rule on Schnucks settlement, intervention
Judge David L. Dowd heard Wednesday a proposed settlement and another plaintiffs' attorney's motion to stop that settlement and took them under submission.
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Read More »U.S. home prices rose 8.5% in year through August, FHFA says
U.S. house prices rose 8.5 percent in the year through August, extending gains even as higher mortgage rates cut into demand for real estate.
Read More »Families blocked by investors from buying U.S. homes
Home purchases by institutional buyers reached a record high in September and all-cash buyers accounted for almost half of sales as investors responded to rising demand from renters.
Read More »High court hears challenge to med mal expert law
The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a constitutional challenge to a statute that says plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases must get a doctor’s expert opinion at the outset of filing of their case.
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Read More »As World Series starts, Rally Squirrel trademark dispute lingers
The United States Patent and Trademark Office suspended action until Dec. 2 on a trademark registration that Fenton company PBR Industries applied for in October 2011 and the St. Louis Cardinals oppose.
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Read More »Most Helfrey Neiers attorneys head to Sandberg
St. Louis firm Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard is launching a Clayton office with the addition of most of the attorneys from 22-year-old corporate firm Helfrey, Neiers & Jones.
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Read More »Commentary: Practicing the vital art of not talking
Lost in the concept of the lawyer as an oral advocate, is the unheralded subtlety that sometimes an advocate wields more influence by being quiet.
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Read More »Health-care false claims cases reap $18.3 billion, report shows
Federal and state governments recovered $18.3 billion between 2008 and 2012 from lawsuits and criminal cases claiming health-care companies overbilled.
Read More »Missouri picks new lethal drug as execution looms
Missouri plans to use the new execution drug in less than a month.
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Read More »Foreclosure cases use Dodd-Frank defense
Lawyers who oppose nonjudicial foreclosure believe they have found a weapon buried within the federal Dodd-Frank Act.
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