Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

Tom DeLay was convicted in 2010 of violating campaign-finance laws requiring that corporate and individual donations be kept separate and used only for approved purposes.

Tagged with: Money Laundering

Vincenzo A. Sicari may get laughs on stage from self-deprecating jokes about his sex life and his Italian family, but the New Jersey Supreme Court isn’t amused.

Individuals in same-sex marriages will be entitled to the employer benefits of their spouse even if they live in a state that doesn’t recognize their union.

Tagged with: Labor Department same-sex marriage U.S. Supreme Court

California’s low-carbon fuel standard doesn’t discriminate against Midwest ethanol producers, a federal appeals court ruled.

In Wednesday’s ruling, the court said the use of the “Like” button was both “pure speech” and symbolic expression.

Tagged with: Facebook First Amendment

A U.S. court says the government has shown that the program doesn’t violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Jerry Sandusky is seeking to reverse his conviction, claiming he didn’t get a fair trial.

Tagged with: sexual abuse

The picture is of three firefighters, covered in soot, hoisting the flag while standing amid the ruins of the World Trade Center the day of the attacks.

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled that the photos and videos of Mohammed al-Qahtani were properly classified by the Defense Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as being in the interest of national security.

DeVry, which has two for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean, is accepting hundreds of students who were rejected by U.S. medical colleges.

The effort comes less than two weeks after the Justice Department announced it wouldn’t sue to block laws in Colorado and Washington that legalize recreational use of marijuana.