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Attorney General Chris Koster says Missouri could get more than $40 million from a proposed multistate settlement over the national mortgage foreclosure crisis.

Attorney General Chris Koster said the 136-count indictment followed several months of investigation of Alpharetta-Ga.-based DocX.

Barnes & Noble should win a patent-infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. that threatens to halt imports of the bookseller’s Nook e-reader, according to staff of the U.S. trade agency hearing the dispute.

Since the release of the Google+ business platform in November, lawyers have had a chance to try out the latest social media brand and decide for themselves if it lives up to the hype.

Bridgett Blasi sued First Student Inc. after a school bus in November 2010 struck and killed her 16-year-old son, Mason Adams, in St. Joseph.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys are beginning to challenge the practice of medical ghostwriting, in which doctors lend their names to medical marketing literature, according to an article published in the medical journal Public Library of Science.

All the conditions are there for an uptick in the national housing market, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. Houses are more affordable and mortgage rates are as low as they have ever been.

So many times when the big credit-rating companies have embarrassed themselves, the world has sighed and chalked it up to a business model that by design invites corruption and incompetence. Perhaps never before have the public’s expectations for the industry been lower.

Aetna Inc. is suing seven California surgery centers for a billing system that it claims “recklessly subverts” health care delivery with charges of as much as $66,100 for a bunion repair.

The difficulty in drawing legislative maps has little to do with the technical details and everything to do with what the mapmakers choose to do with those details.

For the last month, Judge Michael F. Stelzer, in Division 25, has been using video-conferencing technology for initial appearances and other simple proceedings with defendants locked up at the City Justice Center or the Medium Security Institution.