Being a supportive husband, I have, on occasion, been drawn into my wife's residential housing gambit as legal counselor.
Read More »Foreclosure mediation law awaits federal judge’s ruling
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether he will issue a temporary restraining order against St. Louis County’s foreclosure mediation program.
Read More »Sheffield to join Southern District
For just the second time in history, the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District is gaining a female judge.
Read More »Paul Wilson appointed to Missouri Supreme Court | Poll
Paul C. Wilson, a Columbia lawyer, longtime state government employee and former circuit judge, is the newest member of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Read More »List of potential Supreme Court nominees includes Calif. attorney general
President Barack Obama’s reelection – and the fact that four of the current nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are at or above the age of 74 – means that the president will likely appoint at least one more justice to the Court, perhaps as soon as next year.
Read More »Mesothelioma duty-to-warn case splits states
Mass tort litigators are abuzz over a recent Washington state court ruling that some say expands manufacturers’ duty to warn about potential hazards associated with their products, even when those hazards are not caused by the products themselves.
Read More »Missouri public defenders back off hard line on caseloads
The Missouri public defender system has backed off a hard line rule on turning down cases, forestalling a threatened lawsuit by prosecuting attorneys.Decisions on turning down public defender cases now rest more in the hands of district defenders.
Read More »Judge’s home burglarized, Post-Dispatch reports
U.S. Magistrate Judge Nannette Baker's home was burglarized early Thursday night in the city's McKinley Heights neighborhood, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Read More »Federal judge to hear arguments for halting foreclosure law
About two weeks after a St. Louis County judge allowed an ordinance on foreclosure mediation to take effect, a federal judge is set to hear arguments on stopping the ordinance’s enforcement again.
Read More »Audio: KC law firm finds humor in salesman’s rant
A Kansas City law firm is using an example of how not to sell a website to, well, sell its website.
Read More »Judge unseals DuPont ‘fraud’ in Monsanto seed case
DuPont Co., the most valuable U.S. chemical maker, lied to a federal court and investors about its right to use Monsanto Co. seed technology as a central part of its defense in a patent lawsuit, a judge ruled.
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