Judge Carol E. Jackson, the first African-American woman to be appointed a federal magistrate in the Eastern District of Missouri, is the recipient of the Mound City Bar Association’s Legal Services Award.

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Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry wants the public to know what judges do. So as she begins her seven-year term as chief judge of the St. Louis-based federal court, she says she wants to focus on the court's outreach efforts. Perry is the third consecutive woman to serve as chief judge of the District Court in St. Louis. Judge Carol E. Jackson, whom Perry follows, became chief in 2002 after Judge Jean C. Hamilton completed her seven-year term.

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Former Betonsports Plc Chief Executive Officer David Carruthers pleaded guilty in an illegal-gambling case filed by the U.S. Justice Department. Betonsports, now bankrupt, took in $1.25 billion in 2004, with 98 percent coming from bets made through its Web sites, ...

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Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

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Betonsports founder Gary Kaplan, jailed since 2007 on charges he broke U.S. laws banning the placement of bets by interstate phone wire, will face trial on Sept. 21. U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson in St. Louis set the date Wednesday. ...

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The concept of a pub crawl is familiar to many, but the idea of a court crawl may be entirely new. The event to be held at 4 p.m. March 12 will have area lawyers traveling from the Thomas F. ...

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