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“Every lawyer is an author — at least, every courtroom lawyer,” the author and attorney tells a Kansas City audience.

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Not all its cases are losers, to be sure, but this administration’s pursuit of expansive authority tends to lose big.

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George Zimmerman, 29, told police he acted in self-defense after Martin punched him in the face, knocked him to the ground and threatened to kill him.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District said the city did not need enabling legislation by the state in order to enact its red-light camera ordinance.

The first meetings with investors who brought claims against the bank for breaches of representations and warranties were “very tense,” with both sides taking “very strong positions,” Chief Risk Officer Terrence P. Laughlin testified.

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The world’s largest seed company has made “binding assurances” that it won’t take patent action against farmers whose crops inadvertently contain traces of Monsanto’s biotechnology genes, so there’s no reason for a lawsuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said in an opinion posted on its website.

Missouri is one of 14 states which filed a lawsuit accusing McGraw Hill Financial Inc. and its Standard & Poor's unit of inflating mortgage-backed securities ratings.

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The victim was able to collect $100,000 from the driver's insurer, American Family Insurance Company, and $55,000 under his own underinsured motorist coverage through State Farm Insurance Company.

Monsanto field-tested the modified wheat in 16 states, including Washington, from 1998 to 2005, dropped the project and never sought U.S. approval to market the wheat for planting, according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Spokane.

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By all measures, it should have been time well-spent for the two-lawyer firm of Cross & Bennett. The suit ultimately resulted in a record $3 billion criminal and civil settlement, with $75 million going to each of the whistle-blowers in the qui tam action. The firm’s take: an estimated $30 million in legal fees. But the dream case unexpectedly turned into an ugly nightmare.

The anchor was fired from KMOV-TV in May after claiming on his KMOV Facebook page that the IRS began scrutinizing his personal finances more closely after he interviewed President Barack Obama.

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