The husband of one of the three people killed by a white supremacist at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City has sued over the sale of the shotguns used in the April 2014 attack. The lawsuit, filed late Monday ...
Read More »Court upholds fatal verdict against Green Jacobson
A $10.5 million jury verdict that put a St. Louis law firm out of business has been affirmed on appeal. The November 2014 award against Green Jacobson, then a prominent transactional and complex litigation firm, was the largest-ever reported legal ...
Read More »Missouri removing box on convictions from job applications
Missouri is removing questions about a job candidate’s criminal history from initial applications for work within state government, even as a legislative effort to also “ban the box” in the private sector stalls. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday signed ...
Read More »Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation’s highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar. The ...
Read More »Rifles on campus: College police forces add firepower
Once a rarity on campuses, semi-automatic rifles are becoming a standard part of the arsenal for college police forces — firepower they say could make a difference the next time a gunman goes on a rampage. The weapons are rarely ...
Read More »Sotomayor: US high court needs more diversity, in many ways
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the nation’s highest court needs more diversity of personal backgrounds and professional experience, speaking as a vacancy has refocused attention on the court’s makeup. During a talk last week at Brooklyn Law School, ...
Read More »Bottled water only for Head Start kids after lead found
Tap water is mostly off limits at the Head Start daycare center in the southern Missouri town of Ava. The center’s cook, Sandra Porter, avoids the faucet when rinsing potatoes, preparing macaroni and performing other kitchen chores as she prepares ...
Read More »Some Kansas courts slow to answer probable cause requests
Some Kansas courts have failed to comply with a new state law on public requests for probable cause statements, according to the Kansas lawmaker who introduced the legislation. Under the measure signed into law in 2014, Kansas courts have 10 ...
Read More »Supreme Court gives juvenile killers chance for parole
A Missouri Supreme Court ruling last month has given new hope to more than 80 inmates who were convicted as juveniles of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. In response to two U.S. Supreme Court rulings ...
Read More »Senate bill draft would prohibit unbreakable encryption
A draft version of a Senate bill would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption and require companies to help the government access data on a computer or mobile device with a warrant. The draft is being finalized by the chairman of the ...
Read More »Forsyth to retire as Jackson Co. probate judge
The 16th Circuit Judicial Commission is accepting applications for the coming retirement of Judge Kathleen Forsyth, the Jackson County Circuit Court’s long-serving probate judge. Forsyth will retire July 15 after more than 21 years on the bench. She was appointed ...
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