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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Suppose you’re walking in the middle of the street. A police vehicle abruptly pulls right in front of you at an angle, blocking your path. Is that a seizure, under the Fourth Amendment? No, a majority of the full 8th ...

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A woman reached a $1 million settlement after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of her pickup truck in July 2016. Kathleen Reagan, then 30, was driving through Charleston, Missouri, on Interstate 57 during a severe storm when a tractor-trailer driven ...

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A jury in St. Louis has awarded a plaintiffs class of 286 current and former Steak ‘n Shake managers a combined $3 million in unpaid overtime under state and federal laws. Nearly all of the plaintiffs had worked at Missouri ...

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U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has been selected to chair the Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the federal Judicial Conference. The CACM committee, of which Fleissig took ...

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A federal judge dismissed a couple’s product liability lawsuit against Bosch Thermotechnology Corp., which alleged that a Bosch water heater started a house fire at Millionaire’s Cove at Lake of the Ozarks. Thomas E. Howard and Janice K. Howard left ...

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A federal jury awarded $50,000 to a Fenton heavy equipment dealer that had sought more than $6 million in damages after a Wisconsin manufacturer of industrial generators terminated the company’s local dealership over poor sales.

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A federal jury sided with a commercial insurer in the case of a used car dealer who sought $1.5 million in underinsured motorist benefits after he was injured in a 2007 auto collision while on the job.

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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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