State Auditor Tom Schweich flunked the Cole County Circuit Court in an audit released today.
Read More »Missouri woman may get paid for her eggs, after all
A Missouri woman says she’s owed $5,000 for eggs she donated for another woman’s in vitro fertilization.
Read More »Court preserves practice for deficiency judgments
Caught between competing claims of the unfairness of Missouri’s current method of measuring property-debt deficiencies, the Missouri Supreme Court last week chose to leave well enough alone.
Read More »Commentary: Wars on and among women shape U.S. politics
The war on women, waged mostly by men, has given way to the war among women, waged by women on one another.
Read More »Hostess asks court to void labor contracts to cut costs
Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of Twinkie snack cakes, began a court process to overhaul labor agreements to cut costs as it works to reorganize and emerge from bankruptcy protection.
Read More »Court denies courthouse shooter Baumruk’s appeal
A man who was sentenced to death for killing his wife and injuring three others on a shooting rampage at the St. Louis County Courthouse in 1992 has lost a Missouri Supreme Court appeal.
Read More »Cox Communications sues Sprint over patents
Cox Communications Inc. sued a Sprint Nextel Corp. unit in Delaware federal court, seeking a ruling that it doesn’t infringe 12 Sprint telecommunications patents and that the patents aren’t valid.
Read More »Court affirms use of foreclosure sale price
In a 6-1 decision, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to overturn long-standing precedent and said a property’s foreclosure sale price, rather than the fair market value, is the proper measure of the deficiency that a real estate developer owed the bank.
Read More »Court OKs suits for student-on-student harassment
A boy who alleges he was sexually harassed and assaulted by a fellow 6-year-old at an elementary school in Kansas City will be allowed to pursue a claim against the district.
Read More »Health of U.S. at ‘tipping point,’ SLU grad, health care attorney says
The United States has reached a transformational “tipping point” in the delivery of health care, forcing private companies to act with — or without — the government’s assistance.
Read More »Judge: Supreme Court made three major errors in Dred Scott case
The Missouri Supreme Court judges who ruled against Dred and Harriet Scott in their 1852 suits for freedom made three major errors: They ignored precedent, they ignored the will of the state Legislature, and they based their decision on their personal biases.
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