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U.S. Sen. Kit Bond will not seek re-election when his seat is up again in 2010. Bond, a Republican, was first elected a senator in 1986 and has been re-elected three times. Bond shared the news in a speech to ...

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A world-renowned surgeon’s age discrimination lawsuit against Washington University is set to go to trial Tuesday in St. Louis Circuit Court. Dr. Joel Cooper, who is credited with successfully performing the first lung transplant, claims the university insisted that he ...

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In September 2007, the federal government filed a false claims complaint against the former corporate integrity program director of Tenet Healthcare, Christi Sulzbach. Sulzbach, an attorney, allegedly had knowledge of, and failed to stop, Tenet from paying employed physicians compensation ...

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Courts today rightly strive to welcome and accommodate all who have reason to be there. The history of our justice system, like that of our country, has not always been a proud one. Reformers had to overcome sometimes fierce resistance ...

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A federal judge did not err in giving a man who enticed a woman into prostitution a sentence almost two and a half times what was recommended by guidelines, a federal appeals court said in a 2-1 decision. District Judge ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review a dispute between the Missouri Public Service Commission and Southwestern Bell Telephone over the authority of the commission to enforce a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The high court denied the commission’s ...

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Though it’s been open for about three months, a new immigration court in Kansas City won’t get its first judge until March. But once veteran Jackson County Circuit Judge John O’Malley joins the U.S. Immigration Court, relief should start to ...

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A former H&R Block supervisor facing an employment discrimination lawsuit has the right to arbitrate the claims filed against him, a federal appeals court said Monday. Jodi Finnie, a black female, was hired as a business process development coordinator at ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by General Motors Corp., refusing to stop a lawsuit that accuses the automaker of concealing a parking-brake defect on almost 4 million pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. The justices, without comment, left intact ...

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Eastern District Judge Booker Shaw is joining the exodus from the Court of Appeals. After 25 years as a judge, Shaw will retire in February to become a partner in the litigation and appellate litigation practices at St. Louis firm ...

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While many of the state’s court staff might have hoped to have the day off for Gov.-elect Jay Nixon’s swearing-in, only those lucky enough to be working in Jefferson City are not in their offices today. It has been fairly ...

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