Federal court denies company’s motion to dismiss ADA violation lawsuit
The United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, denied Albania LLC’s motion to dismiss plaintiff Gary Kirchner’s suit alleging it violated the Americans with...
View ArticleJaywalking pedestrian struck by driver in Kirkwood settles for $736,250
A St. Louis County pedestrian who was struck by a car while trying to cross Manchester Road in Kirkwood two years ago has reached a $730,250 settlement at mediation with the responsible driver.
View ArticleSt. Louis attorney honored with BAMSL Spirit of Innovation Award
On Jan. 23, approximately fifty attorneys, innovators and community members gathered at the Thompson Coburn offices for the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Spirit of Innovation Awards.
View ArticleSupreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting bar for people convicted...
The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft.
View ArticleJury sides with health care providers in medical malpractice suit
A Jasper County jury has sided with two Springfield physicians and their employers in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the widow of a man who died in 2022 from metastatic melanoma in his brain.
View ArticleSpringfield bar association swears in 2025 president
The Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association swore in Matt Russell as the 2025 president at the 51st SMBA Banquet and Installation of Officers on Jan. 17.
View ArticleLegal battle looms as Trump orders funding freeze during review of federal...
Democrats are planning to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to pause federal grants and loans. The court battle will likely begin with a lawsuit from the New York attorney general.
View ArticleNorfolk Southern, East Palestine announce $22M settlement after 2023 derailment
East Palestine and Norfolk Southern have announced a $22 million settlement resolving all of the village’s claims arising from the disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border...
View ArticleJudge awards $12M in single-vehicle accident that killed 2, injured 2
Three plaintiffs in a Dallas County wrongful death lawsuit will receive $4 million each after a judge ruled in their favor in a case in which the driver in a one-vehicle crash and her front-seat...
View ArticleDaycare property dispute ends with modest jury award
A jury awarded a plaintiff over $57,000 in a breach of contract and fraud case out of Jefferson County, several thousand dollars less than the plaintiff requested at trial.
View ArticleDOJ drops criminal proceedings against Trump co-defendants in classified...
The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the...
View ArticleEx-KCK detective left suicide letters before his body was found ahead of trial
Investigators say a former detective in Kansas left five suicide letters before fatally shooting himself just ahead of a trial in which he was accused of sexually assaulting women for decades.
View ArticleJury rejects passengers’ claims against cab company in St. Louis collision case
A jury ruled in favor of the defendants in a motor vehicle collision case in St. Louis County.
View ArticlePlaintiff obtains $2.5M settlement after car crash
A plaintiff obtained a $2.5 million settlement after a car crash left him unable to volunteer at The Magic House in St. Louis or enjoy life with his grandchildren.
View ArticleKilled Florida TV reporter’s parents claim in lawsuit his employer failed to...
The parents of a local TV journalist who was fatally shot while reporting on a killing in central Florida in 2023 have filed a negligence lawsuit against their son's former employer, claiming the media...
View ArticleMeta agrees to pay $25M to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according...
View ArticleJury sides with former judge in long simmering clash with circuit clerk
In the latest chapter of a years-long legal battle, a St. Louis County jury has sided with Lincoln County’s onetime presiding judge in an intentional infliction of emotional distress lawsuit brought by...
View ArticleCourt rejects bid to expand marine company’s liability in deckhand’s death
A federal court sided with a marine services company in its motion to limit its liability after the death of one of the company’s deckhands.
View ArticleMissouri Supreme Court reinstates attorney suspended for sexual harassment
A St. Louis lawyer suspended for sexual harassment of client was reinstated by the Missouri Supreme Court after serving over a year of suspension.
View ArticleFederal court says banning gun sales to young adults under 21 is...
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it violated the Second Amendment.
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