Civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry spoke at Legal Aid of Western Missouri's 16th annual Justice for All lunch in Kansas City on the importance of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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Keating, et al. v. Nebraska Public Power District, et al. (MLW No. 62938/Case No. 10-2441 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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Another sex offender moving through the state’s sexually violent predator process told a federal jury in St. Louis last week that a resident at the SVP facility in Farmington brutally raped him.

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Legal scholars from across the nation converged in Kansas City last week to grapple with constitutional rights litigation. They homed in on the Civil Rights Act of 1871, specifically Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code. "Despite its anchoring in a statute, it is profoundly judge-made law," said Stanford University School of Law Professor Pamela Karlan (pictured). The review came during the University of Missouri-Kansas City Edward A. Smith/Bryan Cave Lecture and Symposium - "Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the 21st Century."

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Legal scholars from across the country will delve into critical issues surrounding civil rights litigation later this month in Kansas City. A Stanford Law School professor will keynote the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law’s Edward A. Smith/Bryan Cave ...

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The funeral service for civil rights icon Margaret Bush Wilson will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at All Saints Episcopal Church, 2831 N. Kingshighway in St. Louis. Visitation will be held the same morning, beginning at 9 ...

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Civil rights pioneer Margaret Bush Wilson died Tuesday in St. Louis at age 90. She mentored generations of young lawyers in St. Louis at her law firm Wilson & Associates, where she continued to practice until being hospitalized in June with severe head pain. Wilson is pictured here near the “Shelley” house at 4600 Labadie Ave. in St. Louis in May of 2008. She served as counsel on the legal team that argued the landmark Shelley v. Kramer housing discrimination case in 1948.

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A suit claiming that the Francis Howell School District, the Juvenile Justice Center and the St. Charles County Sheriff violated a high school student’s civil rights has been dismissed for two of the three defendants. The U.S. District Court in ...

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When you think "legal lions," think Myron H. Bright. Bright, 90, just celebrated more than 40 years as a judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It's been 40 years and eight months, to be precise, and that makes him the longest-serving working appellate judge on the 8th Circuit since it began in 1891. Bright, and other Court of Appeals employees who observed milestone anniversaries, were honored at a ceremony Tuesday at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse.

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Starting with the infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857, a large number of significant civil rights cases have arisen out of St. Louis. To draw attention to those decisions, the St. Louis County Historical Society is hosting a symposium on ...

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Like many young idealists, Bradley Schlozman aimed to make a difference in government. Overseeing the U.S. Justice Department’s civil-rights division, he dedicated himself to making sure he hired “right-thinking Americans” instead of the sort of “politburo members” and “pinkos” who ...

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