The suit challenges the state’s voter-identification requirement and limits on early voting.
Read More »Appeals court partially upholds Creve Coeur red light cameras
The city of Creve Coeur has joined the ranks of municipalities whose red light cameras have been provisionally OK’d by the state Court of Appeals.
Read More »High court upholds gun charge for prior felon
Missouri Supreme Court ruling leaves a larger constitutional question concerning retrospective laws for another day.
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Read More »Supreme dream team takes on Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban
The legal team that successfully took challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s same-sex marriage ban to the U.S. Supreme Court has joined a challenge to Virginia’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
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Read More »BP fights to shrink spill estimate, damages
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is weighing whether the company’s actions in causing the April 20, 2010, blowout and subsequent spill reached the level of gross negligence.
Read More »Davenport leads Evans & Dixon expansion to Columbia
St. Louis-based Evans & Dixon has hired Aimee Davenport from Lathrop & Gage to head up its newly-opened office in Columbia.
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Read More »VA rejection of sex-assault victims for disability to get review
Military personnel who were the victims of sexual assault can seek disability pay for the psychiatric trauma even if they didn’t officially report the incident.
Read More »Vaginal-mesh makers nears settlement in thousands of suits
C.R. Bard Inc. and four other makers of vaginal-mesh implants accused of injuring women are in talks to settle thousands of lawsuits.
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Shutdown won’t stop federal courts at this point
A combination of unused budget money and funding from online court document fees will help the federal courts will stay open even if the government shuts down tonight.
Read More »Cass County auditor questions nepotism exception
Ron Johnson, Cass County’s auditor, alleged in August that the county’s clerk, Janet Burlingame, appointed her brother’s daughter as a judge for an April 2011 election.
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