A jury’s decision to award a southeast Missouri peach farm $265 million in damages — including $250 million in punitive damages — for its negligent design suit against Monsanto Company and BASF Corporation surprised even the farm’s attorneys. Billy Randles ...

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The U.S. Senate has confirmed St. Louis attorney Matthew T. Schelp as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. The Senate voted 72-23 to approve his confirmation on Feb. 12. Five senators did not vote. Schelp is ...

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A federal judge has awarded a Cape Girardeau couple $5.7 million in damages after finding that the federal government, through the Department of Veterans Affairs, was negligent in failing to timely diagnose a man’s prostate cancer. On Dec. 30, U.S. ...

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has ordered a man who boarded his chimpanzee in solitary confinement to surrender the animal to an accredited sanctuary. The ruling Nov. 20 resolves a portion of a long-running case ...

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A southeast Missouri economic development agency that sued its insurers in federal court in regard to a weather-damaged building settled the complaint for $5.5 million. Poplar Bluff Industries settled the suit against Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. ...

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A federal jury in St. Louis awarded more than $3 million in damages to a family-owned beverage distributor that sued a Dr Pepper subsidiary for breach of contract after losing its 27-year contract with the bottler. Paul Beverage Co. of ...

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A federal judge’s recent order has breathed new life into a dispute between a Missouri liquor wholesaler, its rival distributor and Jägermeister. In a Nov. 15 order, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey denied Jägermeister’s motion to dismiss nine counts ...

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President Donald Trump has nominated St. Louis attorney Matthew T. Schelp to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Schelp, a partner at Husch Blackwell, was one of 10 judicial nominees Trump ...

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A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $21.5 million settlement between Monsanto and a national class of plaintiffs who claimed the labeling on the concentrated version of the herbicide Roundup was misleading. The settlement, ...

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It’s a common problem, according to Greg Linhares, the clerk of court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri: Citizens arrive at his office and try to file civil claims pro se, but confusion sets in. ...

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A federal jury in Cape Girardeau awarded $1.5 million to a woman rear-ended by a truck on a Missouri highway. On Dec. 14, 2016, Michaela Matthews-Bell was driving south on Interstate 55 when the van in front of her braked ...

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