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Arthur Benson, who is gearing up for a potential class action lawsuit against Kansas City's newest entertainment district, is promoting a Facebook page to help hunt down other possible members in the racial discrimination complaint.

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A Missouri judge who turned anger over his father’s death into a lifelong search for a cure for Lou Gehrig’s Disease now will help lead a national organization with the same aspiration. The ALS Association National Board of Trustees recently elected Jackson County Judge Jay Daugherty as chairman. The group fundraises and lobbies for research surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, whose best-known victim was baseball star Lou Gehrig. “It’s an unforgivable disease, and it seems particularly cruel,” Daugherty said.

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Former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Albert L. Rendlen, who died Monday, was known for both his charisma and his strong opinions. They aren't something that his former brother-in law will forget. "He was an avid Republican and all my family was Democratic," said Robert Clayton II, the presiding judge of Marion County. "It made for some lively conversations and some interesting Sunday dinners."

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The Missouri State Public Defender System may try to recoup some of the $70,000 the system raised to pay for a comprehensive study of public defender caseload problems. Marie Kenyon, a newly elected Missouri Bar governor, suggested the defender system ...

In the fight over Missouri’s method of selecting judges, history tends to repeat itself very quickly. Late last week, attorneys filed two legal challenges to a proposed constitutional initiative petition that would repeal the state’s Nonpartisan Court Plan. The proposal, ...

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The national media, civil rights groups and other spectators waiting to see how a small-town jury would handle the case of a young black woman accused of assaulting white police officers never got to find out. Nearly three years after ...

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Ahrens Contracting Inc. is suing the developers of condominiums at Park Plaza Tower for unpaid demolition bills of $550,000. Kingsdell, the ownership group of the Chase Park Plaza hotel and the adjacent Park Plaza Tower, began a $140 million conversion ...

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A St. Louis judge reduced a $6.8 million medical malpractice verdict to $1.28 million, and the plaintiff’s lawyer is ready to appeal. In August, a jury said Saint Louis University was responsible for the death of a 6-month-old boy because ...

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The St. Louis County Circuit Court has been asked to decide a legally murky and rarely seen issue – whether an elected official should be removed from office for his conduct. A petition filed by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the case of a group of black shoppers who say Dillard’s employees subjected them to racial discrimination.

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A Cole County judge halted state Auditor Susan Montee’s attempt to conduct broader examinations of retirement funds for local government employees and the state’s prosecuting attorneys. At issue is whether the first-term Democratic officeholder could do more than examine third-party ...