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Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on ...

Missouri’s recent constitutional amendment on redistricting serves as an unusual example in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering. The high court is set to hear two cases on March 26 that could determine how much partisan consideration ...

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Stephen Reynolds is waiting – and watching. One year ago, Reynolds, the District Defender in St. Louis County, convinced then-Presiding Judge Douglas Beach to recognize that his assistant public defenders were overloaded and to order possible remedies. Long-time Prosecuting Attorney ...

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The 2019 Women’s Justice Awards selection committee has chosen Kimberly J. Norwood, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University, as Missouri Lawyers Media’s Woman of the Year.

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The Missouri Senate is backing an effort that could make it harder to impeach and oust top officials, less than a year after the state’s governor resigned while facing potential impeachment. Senators behind the proposal say it isn’t motivated by ...

Tagged with: Eric Greitens impeachment

A Jackson County judge has approved the release of the jailed daughter of a man accused of killing a Kansas City attorney — but with a stern warning about how both are required to cooperate with a general receiver in ...

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The federal rule specifying which American employees must receive overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week hasn’t changed since 2004, but it might soon — and that change could affect wage-and-hour litigation, according to Missouri employment-law attorneys.

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St. Louis County Family Court has been under intense scrutiny since 2015, when the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on its practices.

Tagged with: Katrina Jones Quinn Grimes St. Louis County Family Court U.S. Department of Justice

Health officials in mid-Missouri are searching for people who may have had contact with a person who has measles. The state health department said in a news release that the person from Jefferson County caught the measles virus while traveling ...

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The St. Louis prosecutor’s ongoing feud with others in the city’s legal establishment escalated Wednesday when her attorney accused a judge, the police and a special prosecutor of trying to “intimidate and humiliate” her. The latest dust-up between Circuit Attorney ...

Tagged with: Kim Gardner St. Louis Circuit Attorney William Tisaby

In a decision that a dissenting judge said “elevates form over substance,” the Missouri Supreme Court ruled on March 5 that a woman who tested positive for drugs four times while on probation still had earned an early release. The ...

Tagged with: April Coleman Missouri Supreme Court Ste. Genevieve County