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Construction continues on the Kauffman Performing Arts Center in this aerial photo taken on Oct. 31, 2008. The widow of a man who died in 2009 while working on the center is suing two hydraulic lift and valves manufacturers, an equipment rental company and three of its employees.

An appeals court has given a Kansas City doctor another chance to win punitive damages against an employer that tried to classify him as an independent contractor to save on health care costs.

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Two insurance companies are not responsible for one of the largest judgments of 2009, a federal court has ruled.

Intellectual property attorney and mystery writer Michael Kahn hopped on board at boutique commercial firm The BrickHouse Law Group.

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and St. Charles County were in federal court Tuesday morning arguing over whether a St. Charles County ordinance banning picketing targeted at funerals should be allowed to take effect.

Cynthia Martin embraces Cary Powers, daughter of Bobbie Lou Nailling-Files. Nailling-Files, who was executive director of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association for 30 years, died Jan. 9. Members of the bar celebrated her life at a service at Mission Hills Country Club on Saturday.

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A Christian youth soccer camp brought its First Amendment free-speech challenge of a school district policy to a federal appeals court.

The first federal rice trial of the new year settled for $873,000.

The federal government has sued St. Louis-based utility Ameren, alleging clean-air violations at a Jefferson County plant.

St. Louis County has mulled a potential $100 million bond issue and tabled it – at least for now.