The court en banc voted 16-11 on Monday to adopt a counterproposal in which gun cases would continue to be assigned to all trial judges.That plan is intended to move gun crimes to the top of the docket.

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The dust of the Central West End's San Luis building has settled and been cleared away, but the determined Friends of the San Luis aren't done fighting. More than nine months after Judge Robert Dierker Jr. dismissed with prejudice the Friends' petition to stop demolition of the apartment building for lack of standing in St. Louis Circuit Court, the Friends' attorneys presented oral arguments at the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

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A St. Louis judge who fought his red-light ticket has won. A special judge assigned to hear the traffic case ruled Wednesday that the city couldn’t meet its burden of proof and found St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert Dierker not ...

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A judge has denied for the moment opponents’ attempts to halt progress on a massive development project in north St. Louis. St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert Dierker indicated the plaintiffs have raised some questions that need to be addressed, but ...

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When Ken Vuylsteke offered to pay the cost of a free lunch for anyone who wanted to come talk about the St. Louis Circuit Court’s new motion practice procedure in civil cases, he figured about 20 people would show up. ...

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