The city of Arnold will receive another windfall of $473,499 with the settlement of the AT&T landlines lawsuit. Arnold is a putative class member in the lawsuit to recover unpaid business license taxes from AT&T Missouri a.k.a. Southwestern Bell Telephone ...

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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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Ford Motor Co. won’t have to provide as much as $500 million in discounts on Explorer sport-utility vehicles under a class action lawsuit settlement because fewer than 1 percent of consumers eligible for the price-cut coupons signed up for them, ...

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Saint Louis University has filed a lawsuit against its assistant dean of students at the law school trying to enforce a settlement agreement that she supposedly entered into. The lawsuit accuses Tracy Templeton-Hoefer and her attorney, Jerome “Jerry” Dobson, of ...

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1. Establish a range and work toward a middle. Plaintiffs who ask more than twice what they reasonably expect may turn off further negotiations. The long dance to the middle gives psychological comfort that no money was left on the ...

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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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Thanks to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, crusading attorneys general throughout the land now have a road map for extracting multimillion-dollar checks from Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs: Don’t accuse them of anything at all. The big news from ...

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Class members reached a $15 million settlement with two insurance companies and one insurance administrator over the sale of long-term care insurance benefits. The settlement marks the end of more than six years of litigation against American Heritage Life Insurance ...

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A doctor who alleged malicious prosecution has reached a settlement with the Brown & Crouppen law firm, averting a two-week trial involving more than a dozen lawyers that had been scheduled to start Monday. For now, the case in St. ...

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The federal government and the city of Independence have reached a settlement aimed to force improvements to the city's sewer system. Under the proposed settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City last week, Independence agreed to make improvements to its sewer system to end the sewage overflows. The EPA estimates the cost of those improvements at $35 million.

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Americans hold a romantic view of what suing for our rights or defending ourselves against scurrilous attacks in a court of law is like. We wait for the Perry Mason moment that shocks the other side into submission. We offer ...

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