Stanford University officials say policies to prevent and respond to sexual assault worked as well as expected after bystanders spotted a member of the swimming team sexually assaulting an unconscious woman near a garbage bin. Two graduate students passing by ...
Read More »Ryan clamps down after LGBT rights plan sank energy bill
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who’s in charge of the GOP-run House, is cracking down on Democrats’ ability to win floor votes on hotly contested issues such as LGBT rights. With his move Wednesday, Ryan is turning his back on a ...
Read More »Circus settles federal complaint over elephant incidents
A circus has agreed to pay a $16,000 fine to settle a federal complaint alleging animal-welfare violations involving Missouri and Pennsylvania shows where elephants were allowed to get loose or too close to circus-goers. Hugo, Oklahoma-based Carson & Barnes Circus ...
Read More »Court affirms market owner’s conviction for sales of fake goods
A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a constitutional challenge from a St. Louis County flea market operator convicted of allowing vendors to sell counterfeit goods on his property. Jack Frison Sr. was convicted in 2014 following a raid on ...
Read More »Panel named for Western District judgeship
The Appellate Judicial Commission on Tuesday selected the Missouri governor’s top lawyer, a Jackson County circuit judge and a Kansas City attorney as finalists for a vacancy on the Court of Appeals Western Distract. Edward R. “Ted” Ardini Jr., W. ...
Read More »Supreme Court limits co-worker liability suits
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday crafted a new understanding of when injured workers can file lawsuits against co-employees who cause an on-the-job injury. In a pair of opinions handed down more than a year after hearing arguments, the Supreme ...
Read More »Planned Parenthood seeks to block Medicaid cutoff in Kansas
Planned Parenthood attorneys are asking a federal judge to prevent Kansas from cutting off Medicaid funding for the organization, arguing that the state is attempting to punish its affiliates for providing abortions. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson was having a ...
Read More »Court crafts ‘roadmap’ to keep polls open late
Long lines, no. Ballot shortages, yes. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District issued an opinion on Tuesday explaining its hastily issued order on April 5 for some St. Louis County polling places to remain open late after they’d run ...
Read More »Senate GOP drops push to ‘defund Obamacare’
Republicans controlling the Senate are abandoning an effort to use their power over the federal purse strings to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The more pragmatic approach came Tuesday on a huge $164 billion spending measure and reflects ...
Read More »Corps: Giving it contaminated landfill would not speed fix
Efforts to resolve a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste will not be hastened if oversight of the project is shifted from federal environmentalists to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a top Corps official has argued. ...
Read More »Judge in Stanford sex assault case called fair, respected
A judge who sentenced a former Stanford University student to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman used to play lacrosse at the school a few miles down the road from his courtroom, where attorneys said Monday ...
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