The St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District instituted a fee that the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled violates an amendment to the state constitution that requires new taxes to get voter approval.

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The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plans to spend $4.7 billion over 23 years to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency over violations of the Clean Water Act.

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Usually, a court’s opinion is its final word on the matter. But every so often it will take something back. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has retracted a footnote in an opinion that an attorney on the losing ...

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A group of seven businesses in Missouri, including giants Anheuser-Busch, Monsanto and Boeing Co., were again denied a motion to intervene in a Clean Water Act enforcement action filed against the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District by the federal and state governments, according to a federal appeals court ruling Monday. The United States and the state of Missouri filed a complaint alleging the St. Louis sewer district discharged raw sewage into local waterways from 2000 to 2005.

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The state of Missouri waived its right to sovereign immunity by participating as an active plaintiff in a federal environmental lawsuit against the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, a federal appeals court said. The 8th U.S. Court of Appeals issued ...

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He was the first black judge on the St. Louis Circuit Court, the Missouri Court of Appeals and the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but what most people don’t know about Theodore McMillian is that he was an undercover ...

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