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A federal judge has held federal prosecutors in contempt for violating preservation orders and failing to cooperate with a special master’s investigation of video and audio recordings of attorney-client conversations at a detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas. U.S. District Judge ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District on Aug. 6 affirmed a $146,000 verdict in favor of a trust that was owed money, despite claims from the defendant that the trust had sought two mutually exclusive theories of recovery at trial. ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Aug. 13 suspended indefinitely the law licenses of two former assistant circuit attorneys in St. Louis, scolding each for “repeated dishonesty.” Katherine Anne Dierdorf received a suspension of at least three years, and Ambry Nichole ...

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A Missouri woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for killing a mentally disabled man, apparently as part of a complicated plot to divert attention from an unsolved homicide from several years earlier. Pamela Hupp, 60, of ...

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Does the Fox Theatre’s policy of captioning only one performance per week comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act? No, according to a split ruling Aug. 7 by a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Fox’s one-captioned-performance ...

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A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued on Aug. 6 a split ruling that upheld a judge’s decision to bar a man convicted of receiving child pornography from having or using cameras. In March, U.S. District ...

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Researchers with the University of Missouri are getting a head start on growing hemp in in order to collect information to help farmers who plan to grow the state’s newest cash crop in the spring. It was been illegal to ...

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After devastating flooding this year, Iowa put $15 million into a special fund to help local governments recover and guard against future floods. Missouri allotted more money to fight rising waters, including $2 million to help buy a moveable floodwall ...

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Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway launched her Democratic campaign for governor Monday by highlighting her efforts to uncover government waste and criticizing a new state law banning most abortions at the eighth week of pregnancy. Galloway formally jumped into the 2020 ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District ruled Aug. 6 that the Missouri Human Rights Commission was able to give a plaintiff the go-ahead for two claims arising from the same set of facts. In 2016, Charles Watkins filed a claim ...

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If Jackson County Circuit Judge Jack R. Grate had his way, he’d stay on the bench a little longer. As it stands, Grate is nearing his 70th birthday — the mandatory retirement age for judges in Missouri. He plans to ...

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