State lawmakers have been pushing for three years to overhaul Missouri’s venue and joinder laws, citing the large number of mass torts in St. Louis featuring mostly out-of-state plaintiffs suing out-of-state companies. As one lawyer put it, St. Louis had become “America’s courtroom.”

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A Missouri Bar committee has given voters a negative review for St. Louis Associate Circuit Judge Barbara Peebles.

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St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s deliberate and direct attack on Missouri’s same-sex marriage ban included legal research followed by swift action to marry four couples “fully aware” of the scrutiny and publicity they would face. (Updated 6/26 at 3:15 p.m.)

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Former St. Louis fire Chief Sherman George was in court this morning, as his attorney asked a panel of appellate judges to overturn a Civil Service Commission's decision to demote the chief.

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Missouri courts must have done something right this year. They weren’t on the annual list of “judicial hellholes” and were removed from the report’s “watch list.” The circuit courts in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson ...

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A plan approved by St. Louis officials requiring workers to take unpaid time off will have some impact on the justice system. The city’s Board of Aldermen last week approved a plan calling on rank-and-file workers to take a furlough ...

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Juries in St. Louis County and St. Louis City used 2008 to kill any lingering stereotypes about their ideological leanings. Long considered a venue that’s home to more conservative juries, a St. Louis County jury last May handed out a ...

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The holidays are over, and it’s time to get back to work. December is always busy, so it was easy to overlook the latest Judicial Hellhole report from the American Tort Reform Foundation that came out last month. The foundation ...

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Federal prosecutors in St. Louis indicted Deidra Humphrey, an ACORN voter registration recruiter, on federal voter fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced Monday. According to the indictment, Humphrey gathered voter registrations for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform ...

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