A second trial four years after the first over the loss of a woman’s eye ended with the same result: a defense verdict. After more than two hours’ deliberation, St. Louis County jurors decided 10 to 2 on Tuesday evening ...
Read More »KC judge orders minimum wage proposal removed from ballot
A proposal that called for Kansas City’s minimum wage to increase to $15 per hour won’t appear on the November ballot. The Kansas City Star reports that a Jackson County Judge on Tuesday ordered the measure’s removal. Presiding Circuit Judge ...
Read More »Scalia addresses Constitution, same-sex marriage in speech
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday criticized judges who believe the Constitution is a “living” document, saying they amount to policy makers who are rewriting it and making moral decisions for the entire country about same-sex marriage and ...
Read More »Judge denies Peabody Energy’s request to strike protest song
A federal judge in Wyoming says it’s tough luck that the world’s largest private coal company doesn’t dig a 1970s-era protest song. U.S. Magistrate Kelly Rankin in Cheyenne rejected a request by Peabody Energy Corp. to strike lyrics from singer-songwriter ...
Read More »Kansas AG obtains order to protect funding for state courts
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt obtained a judicial order Tuesday preserving the state court system’s funding amid a legal dispute over an administrative policy imposed on it by legislators. Schmidt filed a petition in Neosho County District Court to block ...
Read More »Judge frees ‘Happy Birthday’ song from copyright claims
In a gift to many musicians, movie-makers and other content-creators, a federal judge has found that the song “Happy Birthday To You” is entirely in the public domain. But the move could mean millions lost for the music publishing company ...
Read More »Third largest defense verdict of 2014 survives on appeal
An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed one of the largest defense verdicts in Missouri last year. In April 2014, a St. Louis jury determined that a man paralyzed in a car accident was not entitled to damages from the manufacturer ...
Read More »Clampitt gets probation for use of old firm’s credit card
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday gave James M. Clampitt two years’ probation on his law license for his involvement with a credit card fraud incident. Clampitt and his son, James A. Clampitt used a credit card from their former ...
Read More »Supreme Court grants new trial against Chiefs in age case
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a former employee of the Kansas City Chiefs who alleged he was fired for his age. The court also said that, the second time around, the plaintiff must be ...
Read More »Kentucky clerk could head back to court over licenses
She’s already spent five days in jail, and now a Kentucky clerk could be back in court soon for altering marriage license forms issued to same-sex couples. On Monday, lawyers for two gay couples and two straight couples questioned the ...
Read More »Former peanut exec gets 28 years in prison for outbreak
Before federal marshals led him from the courtroom en route to prison, possibly for the rest of his life, Stewart Parnell apologized years after his company’s peanut butter spawned a deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning. The former Peanut Corporation of ...
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