A Missouri appeals court removed an obstacle to the redevelopment of the Ice House District in the city of St. Louis on Tuesday. It upheld the Board of Aldermen's finding that the area just south of downtown is blighted. Mabel Inserra’s warehouse at 1119-1127 S. Broadway was designated as blighted before eminent domain reform. Before the court could uphold the blight finding, it had to determine whether the 2006 eminent domain reform invalidated the board's finding, which was made in 2004, and whether the new law changed the court's standard of review. The short answer to both of those questions is: No.

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A closely held pet-food maker sued by Nestle, which owns St. Louis-based Purina, for patent-infringement said it was using the technology in dispute for years before the world’s largest food company sought patent protection. Wysong Corp., of Midland, Mich., filed ...

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