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A St. Louis judge has approved a $65 million class action settlement between AT&T and municipalities throughout the state. St. Louis Circuit Judge Edward Sweeney approved the settlement Monday, and he affirmed the $16.25 million awarded to class counsel in ...

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Kansas City’s ban on smoking in public places has survived its last court challenge. In a brief order issued Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court said it would not hear an appeal in the case. That leaves in place a decision ...

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A man who survived a fall down an elevator shaft is suing a development firm allegedly connected to an operator of haunted houses in Kansas City. Kenneth Jacobs, of Kansas City, Kan., alleged Group Real Estate Development was negligent in ...

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One of Jackson County’s most anticipated trials of the year was expected to begin today. But as so often happens in civil cases, cooler heads prevailed and reached a settlement. The Kansas City Council voted 7-3 last week to settle ...

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An appeals court on Tuesday denied a constitutional challenge to the Kansas City Council's controversial repeal of a voter-passed light-rail initiative. A committee led by light-rail activist Clay Chastain (pictured on Jan. 16, 2008, prior to filing a challenge to Kansas City's repeal of a voter-approved light-rail plan) had sued Kansas City after the City Council voted in November 2007 to repeal a light-rail plan passed a year earlier. The voters had enacted an ordinance that extended the city's three-eighths-cent transportation sales tax to build, operate and maintain a light-rail system.

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With free legal services already at capacity, people in disputes who seek services elsewhere may be rejected, fall between the cracks or simply find themselves in a revolving door as they’re referred from one agency to another. Last week, Kansas ...

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A man claimed that a five-story slide at a popular Kansas City haunted house promised to take him “into the arms of the devil himself” but instead gave him two broken legs. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Jackson County, ...

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It’s an appellate court’s prerogative to change its mind. And that’s just what the Court of Appeals in Kansas City did last week in a decision allowing juvenile officers to begin termination proceedings against parents whose children have been in ...

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John Wood has the distinction of being the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri who wasn’t touched by the national attorney firing scandal. Todd Graves, who left the office in March 2006, later revealed that he had been ...

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A federal appeals court refused to second-guess a district court judge’s decision not to suppress statements a criminal defendant made to police before his Miranda rights were read to him. The appellate court also upheld the nearly 22-year sentence the ...

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