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How far should defense attorneys go when questioning an alleged victim?

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A University of Missouri law professor has ended his fight against the school’s on-campus gun rules, but the underlying lawsuit lives on.

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In his first year and a half on the Missouri Supreme Court, Judge W. Brent Powell has shown himself to be both cooperative and conservative. Powell’s voting pattern appears to put him closer to the court’s center than to its ...

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Judge Lisa Van Amburg began her legal career when employment law was on the rise. Now she’s winding it down as employment disputes increasingly are kept out of the courthouse. Van Amburg quietly retired from the Missouri Court of Appeals ...

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A Cape Girardeau County jury sided with a group of medical providers who were alleged to have negligently injured a man’s esophagus following a bariatric surgery. During the procedure at St. Francis Medical Center in 2013, certified registered nurse anesthetist ...

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A young man who admitted to a sex offense as a juvenile will not have to register as a sex offender when he turns 21, according to an interpretation of Missouri law by the Court of Appeals Eastern District.

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A St. Louis County jury on Friday found attorney Scott Bailey guilty of second-degree involuntary manslaughter for his role in a fatal street race.

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that people civilly committed for sexually violent behavior have a constitutional right to challenge their lawyers’ representation. But the details have yet to be worked out. The court ruled in two cases that were argued ...

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A St. Louis attorney secured a $3.2 million settlement for two officials at a financial company, as well as the expungement of defamatory information in their industry records. David B. Cosgrove of the Cosgrove Law Group said his clients were ...

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What is a job worth? So far, the answer from Missouri courts is: not enough to enforce an arbitration contract, at least if the employee is at-will. Now a series of cases pending in the Missouri Supreme Court could test how far that principle goes.

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A Missouri Bar committee has given voters a negative review for St. Louis Associate Circuit Judge Barbara Peebles.

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