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Lawyers for a St. Louis woman who won a $5.8 million bench judgment against the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise say they still have ways to pursue collection even after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.

The company behind the “Girls Gone Wild” videos filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from a $10.3 million debt claimed by Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas and a $5.8 million award won by a St. Louis woman who says the company used naked images of her without permission.

At oral arguments, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a sentence imposed according to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines in place at the time of sentencing — which was harsher than the sentence that would have been imposed under guidelines at the time of the crime — violated the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause.

Johnson & Johnson must pay $7.76 million in punitive damages to a woman who previously won a $3.35 million compensatory award for injuries she blamed on the company’s vaginal-mesh device, a New Jersey jury ruled.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay signed a bill Wednesday that requires lenders to allow homeowners to enter into mediation in an effort to stave off foreclosure proceedings.

The National Football League’s standard arbitration clause took a double hit Tuesday when a Missouri court refused to enforce it against two former employees of the Kansas City Chiefs who sued the team for age discrimination.

A federal judge in St. Louis on Tuesday signed off on a $7.5 million settlement of a multidistrict class action lawsuit against Aurora Dairy Corp. over the marketing of organic milk products.

U.S. District Court administrators in Missouri are watching, worrying and preparing for less money as automatic federal budget cuts loom.

The judges of the St. Louis Circuit Court have rejected a proposal that they impose a temporary hiring freeze on judicial operating assistants.

Anthony Rex Gabbert, John J. Miller and Harold A. “Skip” Walther are candidates for an opening on the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District.

The investiture ceremony for U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush has been canceled due the winter storm.