What will the U.S. Supreme Court do with the constitutional challenge to the health care law? Prediction, always a delicate business, is even harder when high-stakes politics affects a case.
Read More »LegalZoom settlement gets preliminary approval
A Jefferson City federal judge gave tentative approval Monday to a $6 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against online legal document provider LegalZoom.
Read More »Health-care review may define regulatory power
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health- care overhaul in a clash that will shape the 2012 election and spell out the extent of the federal government’s power.
Read More »High court to review Social Security issue for posthumously conceived children
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to resolve a circuit court conflict that the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals helped create.
Read More »UPDATE: Occupy protesters’ injunction denied
A federal judge denied an injunction that would have barred the city of St. Louis from enforcing curfew and other ordinances against the protesters.
Read More »University City attorney may be on way out
The attorney who led the way on cell phone and landline tax lawsuits that netted hundreds of Missouri cities tens of millions of dollars may soon lose his main day jobs.
Read More »Polsinelli re-elects Welsh as chairman
Russ Welsh, who has overseen high revenue growth and expansion at Polsinelli Shughart, will stay on for another five years.
Read More »Two competing ‘Rally Squirrels’ trademark applications filed
Eight days before the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team won the World Series Oct. 28, a Missouri company submitted an application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register “Rally Squirrels” as a trademark.
Read More »Judge approves $275,000 settlement despite mother’s intervention
The parents of a St. Charles man killed in a motorcycle accident are splitting a $275,000 wrongful death settlement, despite the mother’s request to intervene and reject the agreement.
Read More »Missouri Supreme Court may sever ties with long line of cases
Missouri’s legislative process might never be the same again, depending on the outcome of a case argued Thursday in the state’s high court.
Read More »Highest court sinks its teeth into meaty case
Sometimes a pig is just a pig. But when a California law requires meat manufacturers to euthanize non-ambulatory pigs and other livestock before they can be slaughtered for processing, it takes the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the meaty issue of whether that state statute is preempted by federal law.
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