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The Missouri Court of Appeals has agreed to review a judge’s decision to throw out all evidence against a former Kansas City lawyer accused of killing his law partner.

After Fred Weber Inc. slapped trash-transfer opponent Thomas Diehl with a defamation lawsuit for referring to the company as “trash terrorists,” the South County man struck back with a lawsuit of his own for malicious prosecution.

When an off-duty police officer from outside St. Louis walked into a city courthouse with a gun, it marked the second breach of security at area courts in the past two months.

Plaintiff Brenda Watson bought Sawyer, the dog on the left, from Missouri breeder Brandi Cheney in November 2006. She claims Sawyer arrived with “kennel cough” and now suffers from seizures. Cheney said she offered to replace Sawyer with another dog.

Saint Louis University School of Law will hire 15 to 20 of its 2010 graduates in a part-time, 12-week program dubbed SLU Law PLUS. The PLUS acronym stands for Practicing Lawyers Unified in Service.

The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether to revive a lawsuit against a former Kansas City school official — and potentially undermine a federal statute in the process.

The Health Centers of America-Kansas City, located at 5308 E. 115th St., is at the heart of a flurry of litigation accusing one of its physicians, Dr. Carol Ryser, of diagnosing patients with diseases and afflictions they don't suffer so she could benefit from the sales of in-house supplements.

Judge Michael Wolff said Wednesday that he will step down from the Missouri Supreme Court. In a statement, Wolff said he is taking a full-time teaching position at Saint Louis University School of Law beginning in the fall semester of 2011. “By next August, I will have served 13 years on the Court, and the Missouri Constitution says I must retire in the not-too-distant future,” Wolff said. “Because I am not the retiring type, I am looking forward to the next phase of my life.”

Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff, left, said today in a statement that he will leave the court next year.

For the first time during a yearlong series of test trials over a 2006 contamination of the U.S. rice supply, Bayer CropScience has offered to settle a case.

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling against President Casino in a long-running legal dispute over money owed stemming from a barge crash into the casino boat, which caused it to close for a few weeks.