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By Henry B. Chace I am working on my 2009 technology budget for my firm. It’s a painful process even in good times, as I plan projects, upgrades, new hardware and software and match dollars to it all, along with ...

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One of President George W. Bush’s legacies will be spelled “NSL,” as in national security letter. Bush did not dream up NSLs. Congress enacted the legislation creating NSLs in 1986. What the president oversaw was an explosion in their use ...

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A class action suit against Ethex Corp. was filed on Wednesday in St. Louis County Court, alleging that the company’s pharmaceutical tablets contained a larger dose than listed on the label. Howard Fox, the named plaintiff in the suit, purchased ...

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Procter & Gamble Co., the world’s largest consumer-products company, said a rival has agreed to stop selling look-a-like versions of its Olay moisturizing cream to settle a lawsuit. Fruit of the Earth, a closely held company based in Irving, Texas, ...

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By Phil Milford Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, won a judge’s approval to pay $2.5 million in legal fees to settle shareholder lawsuits over last year’s $52 billion merger. Leuven, Belgium-based InBev said in June it would buy Anheuser-Busch ...

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H&R Block must defend against claims by New York that it deceptively marketed retirement accounts to both residents and nonresidents, an appeals court ruled. New York’s Appellate Division in Manhattan, in a decision made public Tuesday, upheld a lower-court decision, ...

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The Kaiser Law Firm is facing a legal malpractice suit filed by a man who alleges the firm’s negligence and carelessness in drafting his prenuptial agreement cost him over $500,000 in his subsequent divorce. Ken Yavitz hired attorney Philip Kaiser ...

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TraMar’s McGrath to serve on SITE board Peggy McGrath of TraMar Contracting in St. Charles has been elected secretary/treasurer of Site Improvement Association of St. Louis. Other board officers are Andy D. Ernst of Pace Construction Co., president, and Tom ...

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President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers are looking at including a “buy American” provision in the economic-stimulus legislation that the incoming administration has made its first priority. “We are reviewing the buy American proposal and we are committed to a plan that ...

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The so-called “cyber-bullying mom” could learn her fate as early as this week. A hearing on Lori Drew’s motion for acquittal is scheduled for Thursday morning, and Judge George H. Wu has told the lawyers involved in the case that ...

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The former owners of a St. Charles pharmaceutical returns business sold after a federal Drug Enforcement Administration investigation have won a $2.3 million jury verdict against the buyer. A St. Charles County jury on Dec. 12 sided with brothers David ...

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