The situation illustrates the government’s dilemma as the U.S. recruits skilled managers to navigate the mortgage mess from the same industry responsible for causing it.
Read More »Parents decide not to file school transfer lawsuit against Mehlville
A group of parents in the unaccredited Riverview Gardens School District had claimed that Mehlville was illegally refusing to accept their children as transfer students.
Read More »American-US Airways seen as pinching passengers in merger
Concern that prices would rise across a range of markets was central to the argument made last week by the U.S. Justice Department to block the $14 billion transaction.
Read More »Cellphone search cases move closer to Supreme Court
Because of the wealth of personal information most cellphones hold, defense attorneys and civil liberties advocates argue that police searches of physical phones as well as the collection of location data emitted from the phones should require a warrant, just as the search of a person’s personal computer or the substance of phone or email conversations would.
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Read More »Three finalists picked for Jackson County judgeship
The 16th Circuit Judicial Commission has nominated S. Margene Burnett, Nick A. Cutrera and Kenneth R. Garrett III for a circuit judgeship in Independence.
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Read More »Campbell Soup, American Heart Association sued in fraud case
A consumer claims the American Heart Association fraudulently certifies the company’s products as healthy-- certifying more than 30 of Campbell’s Healthy Request soups as “heart-healthy” even though a can has at least six times as much sodium as the organization recommends.
Read More »Insurance company on hook in junk-fax case
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that Columbia Casualty Co. has to cover class action damages incurred by its client, HIAR Holdings, in a junk-fax settlement case.
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Read More »Public defender settles employment discrimination case
The agreement bars a former St. Louis employee from seeking or accepting employment with the state or with any department, branch or agency that will cause her to perform work for the defendants.
Read More »Ex-con’s charts rise from scofflaw to ‘Law Man’
Meet Shon Hopwood, University of Washington School of Law class of 2014 — and convicted felon.
Read More »Florida to sue Georgia in Supreme Court over water
Florida plans to file a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit against Georgia, saying the state is consuming too much water that would otherwise flow to Florida.
Read More »Watchdog group proposes more disclosure in auditor reports
Auditors would be required to disclose the most difficult parts of their opinion of a public company’s books under a proposal that would trigger the first change in 70 years to the reports.
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