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St. Louis County prepares for transition to electronic search warrants
The old-fashioned movie cliché of a police officer banging on a judge’s door in the middle of the night to get a warrant is not, in fact, so old-fashioned.
Settlement ends case over St. Louis bridge death
The family of a construction worker who died while working on the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. Louis settled its wrongful-death claim against the construction companies that were building the bridge.
Jury awards former cop $7.5 million on harassment claims
A St. Louis jury Friday awarded a former city police officer $7.2 million in punitive damages and $300,000 in compensatory damages in her sexual harassment suit against the police department.
Muskrat liability unclear in zookeeper’s settlement
A man who fell and injured his ankle claimed his apartment complex was responsible for a walking path’s collapse because of a known problem with burrowing muskrats.
St. Louis County ‘flips the switch’ in transition to e-filing
Three dozen Missouri courts have made the leap into electronic case filing in the past two and a half years, and next week marks a milestone in the transition as the state’s largest circuit court makes the move.
First Kilroy’s tent collapse suit settles
Nearly two years after a sudden and severe thunderstorm destroyed a tent outside a bar in downtown St. Louis, the family of a man who died in the incident has settled with the bar and the company that owned the tent.
Jury finds school not liable for student runner’s death
The parents of a boy who died after a car hit him during a school cross-country team run sued the school and the driver, but a jury found no fault in the incident.
Judicial pay raises look forward, not back
The stage is set for a budget scuffle between Missouri’s House and Senate over pay raises for judges.
Eastern District seeks new clerk as Woodward retires
Jim Woodward, clerk of courts for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, is retiring from the position he’s held for 14 years.
Missouri law schools gain in U.S. News rankings
Love them or hate them, they’re out again: U.S. News & World Report released its 2015 Best Law Schools rankings.
SLU Law clinic students keep water on for trailer park residents
In Jefferson County Circuit Court, students from Saint Louis University School of Law’s legal clinic obtained a temporary restraining order on behalf of tenants about to lose water and sewer service.
St. Louis jury finds driver at fault for accident but awards no damages
A St. Louis jury found that all fault lay with the woman who had been driving the plaintiff — but jurors awarded the plaintiff nothing.
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