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The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to the possibility of making it harder for investors to join to sue corporations for securities fraud — but maybe not as hard as companies that have to defend such lawsuits would like.

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Three former executives at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, once the No. 3 legal adviser to banks handling merger deals, were charged with a “blatant” $200 million fraud that helped lead to the largest law firm bankruptcy in history.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared unwilling to lift the shield of qualified immunity from police officers who shot and killed a fleeing suspect and his passenger after a high-speed car chase.

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The decline of first-time home buyers has hurt U.S. sales and threatens to widen the wealth gap between owners, who benefit from appreciation, and renters.

The suit says the energy provider is violating state standards for air pollution at three coal-fired plants in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

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U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget will propose tax cuts for low-income families, a retirement savings plan and ask Congress to make permanent certain tax breaks to offset the cost of higher education.

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The firm said the suit would be on behalf of farmers, agribusiness and property owners in five states that were harmed by a series of floods between 2007 and 2011. (Updated 2:15 p.m.)

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A fractured appellate panel on Tuesday upheld a woman’s conviction for committing perjury during a juvenile court proceeding, even though she had asked for an attorney and was illegally denied one.

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Norman S. London, a St. Louis criminal defense attorney who left his high-profile practice to head the Federal Public Defenders Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, died Saturday from complications after a fall. He was 83.

For decades we have paid for our neglected infrastructure in lost productivity and jobs, but the full bill is coming due.

Small oil-and-gas drillers, second-home owners and land conservation advocates ensured that their provisions largely escaped U.S. Rep. Dave Camp’s knife in his ambitious plan to revamp the U.S. tax code.