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The latest independent study of Missouri’s public defender system reaffirmed its overloaded status and declared Missouri’s indigent defense options are “headed for disaster.” The report, released Friday morning, also suggested defenders are using stricter standards for indigent defense as a ...

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Public defenders get fraction of promised stimulus funds

Kathleen Lear, comptroller of the Missouri Public Defender System, gives her report on the budget to the Public Defender Commission during the annual Missouri Bar Conference in St. Louis on Sept. 25. The state's public defender system will likely receive only $500,000 of the $2 million in federal recovery funds allocated to the beleaguered system by the state Legislature.

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A St. Louis judge early this month socked O2Connect with a $354,000 default judgment in a lawsuit over a wireless network the company installed. Advertising company The Spark Agency got the judgment after no one representing O2Connect showed up for ...

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The voting is on. Across the state, counties that have adopted the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan are selecting a new member of their judicial commission. Voting began last week, but attorneys have until Nov. 7 to deliver their ballots to ...

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Circuit courts aren’t just feeling the budget crunch from the state but from local governments, too. At a court en banc meeting of the St. Louis County Circuit Court, Presiding Judge John Ross described how the court had to make ...

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When early residents of Platte County were laid to rest in their family cemeteries, little did they know that one day their lands would be part of Kansas City International Airport.

Kansas City, which owns much of the land surrounding the airport, asked an appeals court on Wednesday to help it move four old cemeteries that it says lie in the path of development. However, living relatives are fighting the move.

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A St. Louis County jury awarded a man $37,000 more than what he was awarded in his first trial after he was allowed to enter all of his medical damages. In August, Judge Steven Goldman granted Ronald Vickery’s motion for ...

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A former clerk at a Kansas City area shoe store who was fired after handing over a receipt that contained a racial slur to a black customer now is suing her ex-employer. Jessica Cockram, of Kansas City, claims the action ...

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The Lawyers Association of St. Louis turned 75 this year and is celebrating the milestone true to its style, with a fun, somewhat low-key event. The Lawyers Association is hosting its 75th Anniversary Dinner Reception Celebration at 5:30 p.m. Thursday ...

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Attorneys are starting to line up for the Kansas City mayor's office. More than 16 months away from the election, two area lawyers are looking to unseat Mayor Mark Funkhouser.

Mike Burke (pictured) is the most recent to put in a mayoral bid for the February 2011 election, and Sly James, of the Sly James Law Firm in Kansas City, has been raising money for his campaign all year.

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Railcars sit on tracks near downtown St. Louis. The U.S. Supreme Court will use a dispute involving a unit of Union Pacific Corp. to clarify the liability rules for international shipments that are damaged while being transported by rail or truck within the country.

The justices on Tuesday agreed to hear appeals in a dispute with companies suing over alleged property damage from a 2005 train derailment.

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