Things aren’t looking too good for Wentzville-based US Fidelis. The extended auto warranty company announced last week that it has stopped selling service contracts, and the company’s headquarters at the old Belz Mall is facing foreclosure. The sale of the ...

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A former employee caught up as a co-defendant in an age-discrimination lawsuit against Fleishman-Hillard has in turn filed suit against the company, alleging her own wrongful termination for being a whistleblower. This time as the plaintiff, Jennifer Goldston claims that ...

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A small St. Louis graphic design firm is taking on Microsoft Corp. over the use of the name “Bing.” Bing! Information Design sued Microsoft on Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition over the name ...

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A federal jury awarded $100,000 to a plastic surgery patient whose naked photos were published in a Riverfront Times article about the doctors at a surgery center. The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe” from Georgia, expected her medical files ...

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Attorney General Chris Koster filed lawsuits against six extended auto warranty companies last week for deceptive practices and violating Missouri’s No-Call law. Five of the six companies are located in St. Charles County. The lawsuits were filed Nov. 12 in ...

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A Kansas City Suzuki dealer is suing his brother for allegedly tarnishing the Suzuki name in a high-profile advertising scheme that prompted a flood of other lawsuits in Missouri and Kansas. Jeremy Franklin of JF Enterprises recently filed a lawsuit against Chad Franklin of CFS Enterprise Inc. and the American Suzuki Motor Corp. itself. Jeremy Franklin claims that the involvement of the corporation and his brother in a 2007 "Drive a Suzuki" and "Drive for Life" ad campaign hurt his business to the tune of $10 million.

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A federal judge threw out a Fair Housing Act lawsuit the city of Kansas City filed against the owner and manager of an apartment complex that had instituted an 8:30 p.m. curfew for minors. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner, ...

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Merck & Co. is paying claims by the families of more than 3,100 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes blamed on the drug, according to a law firm administering a $4.85 billion settlement fund. ...

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A woman has sued a St. Louis attorney, alleging he convinced her wealthy father to make bad loans to the lawyer’s son. The daughter says she’s now out close to $1 million.   Giovanna Clark Boato, of Italy, filed suit against ...

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The former owner of two sleep study clinics was awarded $225,000 in a settlement of a breach of contract and fraud lawsuit against his former business partner. Plaintiff Micha L. Cooper of St. Charles claimed that defendants Byron K. Martin, ...

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The St. Louis Public School District is facing a lawsuit over its refusal to sell vacant school buildings to charter schools. The suit seeks the removal of deed restrictions placed on the sale of closed public school buildings by the Special Administrative Board of the Saint Louis Public School District. The deed restrictions prohibit buyers of closed SLPS buildings from reopening the building as a school for 100 years.

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