Grant Doty has joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri as a staff attorney. Doty, formerly a lawyer at Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, will work alongside Legal Director Tony Rothert to aid in expansion of rights protection throughout ...
Read More »Lack of standing helps Kansas City on appeal
Following a long procedural detour, a lawsuit between the city of Kansas City and a local apartment complex is heading back to Jackson County Circuit Court.
Read More »Veterans Day
U.S. Navy veteran Keevey Davis raises a new American flag Tuesday outside the St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center with the help of fellow veterans Rodney Smith, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Gus Buttice, a deputy sheriff who served in the U.S. Army. St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Jimmie Edwards gave a speech at the flag raising event to recognize employees of the Family Court who are veterans.
Read More »Billboard ordinance challenge shot down
A digital billboard owned by the Lamar Company sits along Interstate 35 north of Kansas City. Such billboards are banned within Kansas City.
Read More »Former executive settles with VFW
The Veterans of Foreign Wars headquarters in Kansas City. The VFW opted to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by one of its former executives.
Read More »Cactus Grill settles harassment suit for $150K
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday announced details of a $150,000 settlement in a sexual harassment suit involving a teen waitress.
Read More »‘Whistle-blower’ in the produce aisle
A former employee is making some unappetizing allegations about a Whole Foods store in a lawsuit over her firing.
Read More »AB pushes for arbitration
Anheuser-Busch Cos., subsidiary of Belgium-based AB InBev, asked the federal court in St. Louis to push a dispute it’s having with a supplier into arbitration.
Read More »Getting ready for small law
Attorney Alan Gallas, a member of the selection committee for Solo and Small Law Incubator candidates, talks Wednesday with Judith Sharp, staff director of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law’s Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic, at the school’s reception for the incubator at 4743 Troost Ave.
Read More »Death of ‘idea man’ Kenneth Klein
Kenneth Klein and Betty Springfield, of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, check out auction items at the 2005 Justice for All Ball. Klein, 71, of Lake St. Louis, died Nov. 4 from lung cancer, said his daughter, Paula Donovan.
Read More »Report says Ladue’s officers don’t target blacks
A consultant hired by Ladue city officials to analyze its traffic stop data concludes the city’s police force doesn’t target black drivers and faults the state’s data analysis.
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