The Lawyers Association of St. Louis will present its most prestigious award, the Award of Honor, to St. Louis County lawyer Michael P. Gunn.
Read More »Commentary: Text a little less and think a little more
If you’ve suspected lately that your family’s mobile-phone bill is driven entirely by your 15-year- old, you are probably right.
Read More »Judge rejects challenge to Obama’s NLRB appointments
A judge rejected a challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, calling it a “political dispute.”
Read More »Senate defeats bid to cancel contraception rule
The U.S. Senate defeated a Republican plan to let insurance plans and employers refuse to cover birth control and other health services that violate their religious beliefs.
Read More »Commentary: Rising crude prices tap into a barrel of nonsense
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, like rising crude-oil prices to make sensible people go all wobbly in the head. Economists fail to differentiate between cause and effect.
Read More »Plaintiff: Police laughed during fake FBI agent’s threats
The police chief and a Gerald police lieutenant “giggled” as a man who posed as a federal drug enforcement agent threatened to beat him during questioning at the police station, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city testified Wednesday.
Read More »ABA report: Missouri death penalty procedures rife with problems
Not holding on to DNA evidence for as long as a person is incarcerated is just one of the problems identified by the American Bar Association's analysis of Missouri’s death penalty procedures.
Read More »Kansas City outlook revised to negative over debt plan
Kansas City had the outlook for its AA credit grade revised to negative from stable by Fitch Ratings on concern that the city may borrow too much and that it hasn’t planned to increase pension funding.
Read More »Commentary: Small business, killer of corporate-tax reform
Like the Republicans, President Barack Obama recognizes that our high corporate-tax rate puts U.S. companies at a disadvantage to their foreign competitors.
Read More »Suit will decide if federal workers can bring constitutional claims
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Civil Service Reform Act precludes federal workers from bringing certain constitutional claims in federal court.
Read More »Owner of Doe Run lead smelter agrees to pay $55M in property damage suit
The owner of the Doe Run lead smelter in Herculaneum agreed to pay $55 million to settle a class action lead-contamination lawsuit that has been pending for more than a decade.
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