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A judge has denied the Jackson County district defender’s request that a new judge hear her office’s concerns about public-defender caseloads.

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In ads and speeches, Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is pounding Missouri voters with a single message: Her Republican challenger wants to end health-insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The Republican, Attorney General Josh Hawley, says it’s not true ...

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For 35 years, Ruth D’Eredita tried to dismiss her former professor’s behavior — the way he touched her, groped her and kissed her. Last year, however, as dozens of women came forward to share similar encounters with powerful men, she ...

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A couple of liberal Harvard law professors are lending their name to a new campaign to build support for expanding the Supreme Court by four justices in 2021. The campaign, calling itself the 1.20.21 Project and being launched Wednesday, also ...

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Jurors who found that agribusiness giant Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer contributed to a school groundskeeper’s cancer are urging a San Francisco judge not to throw out the bulk of their $289 million award in his favor. Juror Gary Kitahata told ...

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Prosecutors say two maintenance workers at a Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on a waterslide deliberately misled investigators as their criminal trial began. Attorneys for David Hughes and John Zalsman countered Tuesday that the Kansas Attorney ...

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Two Laclede County judges have dismissed a pair of workplace exposure-related cases against Copeland Scroll, a manufacturer of air-conditioner compressors. On Oct. 9, the plaintiff in both cases, Philip Berger, of Lebanon, filed stipulations of dismissal in his lawsuits against ...

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When Missourians go to the polls to vote Nov. 6, they’ll face three separate ballot questions aimed at legalizing medical marijuana.

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A series of transactions which passed a woman’s property to her children after her death disqualified her husband from receiving skilled-nursing benefits through Medicaid, a Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruling affirmed Oct. 9. The case centers on Joe ...

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

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Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life’s little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, ...

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