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In two settlements, the designers and builders of a University of Missouri-Kansas City apartment building that was demolished in 2020 because of water and mold damage agreed to settle a suit brought by the University of Missouri.

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower-court ruling finding $3 million in uninsured-motorist coverage for the family of a woman who, along with her son, was killed in a car crash.

A documentary filmmaker who alleged St. Louis police beat him while covering a protest will be able to take his claims to trial following a federal appeals court ruling.

After nearly 13 years on the bench in Jackson County, Judge David M. Byrn is set to retire on July 28.

A second case challenging the constitutionality of the use of videoconferencing software during court proceedings is on its way to the Missouri Supreme Court.

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower-court ruling that a St. Louis ordinance against obstructing traffic is unconstitutional after holding that its primary aim is to regulate conduct, not speech.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled June 29 that a Verizon customer’s 2015 receipt referencing settling disputes by arbitration is unenforceable because it exceeds the scope of what reasonable parties would expect in entering an agreement.

A federal jury in St. Louis has found a former Steak ‘n Shake worker liable for defamation for her viral Facebook post alleging that a local store sold burgers with live worms in them.

A Missouri appeals court has declined to grant a grandmother visitation rights after ruling that state law does not give her the opportunity to seek them outside of the context of a dissolution proceeding.

Three Al Jazeera America journalists who were tear-gassed while covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson settled their federal suit against a St. Charles County law enforcement officer for $280,000, according to their attorney.

Public governmental bodies in Missouri are not permitted to charge Sunshine Law requesters for the time attorneys spend reviewing the request, a unanimous Missouri Supreme Court ruled June 29.