Civil Trials

Schnucks Credit Card Lawsuit: Could Company Owe Millions of Dollars To Affected Customers?

In the wake of a massive security breach that left millions of credit cards vulnerable, Schnucks is now facing multiple lawsuits in Missouri and Illinois from customers and lawyers who say the company should have alerted shoppers sooner -- and should never have let this happened in the first place. ... More >>

Salem Library Told to Stop Wiccan Censorship: "We Are Pleased This Matter is Behind Us"

Public library officials in Salem are pleased with a court order against them this week that says they cannot block Wiccan and Native American websites -- after the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri accused them of refusing to allow a patron to conduct online research on certain rel ... More >>

YMCA St. Louis Lawsuit: Two Men Sue Over Alleged Swimming Instructor Molestation

This week, two men have filed a lawsuit against the YMCA of Greater St. Louis -- more than twenty years after a swimming instructor allegedly molested them when they were just middle school age. The petition, on full view below, says that both plaintiffs want to ensure this abuse does not happen t ... More >>

Judge Upholds Ellisville's Red Light Cameras

St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Thea Sherry is the latest Missouri magistrate to rule in favor of the constitutionality of red light cameras. Judge Sherry dismissed a class-action lawsuit October 30 that challenged Ellisville's ordinance allowing for the controversial cameras. Her ruling marks the fif ... More >>

Couple Sues Doctors For Decapitating Their Baby During Labor

Hey, buddy. How are you? Havin' a bad day? Well, if so, you may want to mosey on down the internet trail and skip this post. Because this is the worst story we've heard in a really, really, really long time. Here's what happened to a young St. Louis couple and their unborn baby, according to a law ... More >>

Have You Illegally Downloaded the Porno "Total Black Invasion 2"? Beware this Lawsuit!

Yesterday, in our esteemed federal court, the Southern California-based company, West Coast Productions -- "Your Premier Source for Interracial Porn!" -- filed suit against 71 unnamed people living in eastern Missouri. The accusation? That they infringed copyright by downloading "Total Black Invasio ... More >>

Kansas City's Red Light Cameras Survive Class-Action Lawsuit

Last year the St. Louis-based Simon Law Firm filed six class-action lawsuits challenging the legality and constitutionality of red light cameras in Missouri. To date, the Simon lawyers are 0-3 in their quest to banish the cameras in a half-dozen municipalities. The latest defeat occurred last week w ... More >>

Billy Little: Pastor and Pyschologist Accused of Dusty Sex Scandal

A retired Baptist minister and licensed psychologist who, according to his biography, once hosted a counseling program on KMOX and worked as a sports psychologist for the baseball Cardinals, stands accused today of taking advantage of a female patient. And the plaintiffs and their attorney believe m ... More >>

Creve Coeur's Red-Light Cameras Win Another Legal Battle

​A St. Louis County judge this week upheld Creve Coeur's red-light camera system, dismissing a class-action suit challenging the legality of the cameras. Attorneys Ryan Keane and John Campbell with the Simon Law Firm filed the suit last year on behalf of four people who'd received tickets from the ... More >>

Club-Goers Sue Blackmon's for Last Year's Infamous Ruckus

Five plaintiffs have filed suit against an East St. Louis nightclub after claiming to have suffered injuries during a no-holds-barred melee made infamous last April after video footage emerged and circulated across YouTube. The fracas, which lasted several minutes, included pistol whippings, body sl ... More >>

Lawsuit Filed Over Brawl at Blackmon's Webbie Concert

​Five plaintiffs have filed suit against an East St. Louis nightclub after claiming to have suffered injuries during a no-holds-barred melee made infamous last April after video footage emerged and circulated across YouTube. The fracas, which lasted several minutes, included pistol whippings, body ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Subject of New Lawsuit

Retirees of the cash-strapped Post-Dispatch say they were misled about health benefits​A dozen former employees of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are suing the local daily for fraudulent inducement and negligent misrepresentation, claiming that the paper's top brass pulled out of a 2007 agreement ... More >>

St. Louis Production Crew StarStrukk Sues Andy Samberg; The Lonely Island

Phenomenal Multimedia​Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island group are at the center of a copyright and royalty lawsuit filed by the St. Louis-based production group StarStrukk.The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York by Aleric "Rick Tha Ruler" Banks and Monique Hine ... More >>

Cigarette Mistrial Boiled Down to Smokers v. Nonsmokers on Jury

Smokers in the jury stood apart from the non-smoking colleagues.​A lawsuit that finally went to trial last month after wending its way though court for 11 years ended yesterday in a mistrial when the jury failed to deliver a verdict. The class-action lawsuit accused tobacco giant Phillip Morris of ... More >>

Plastic Surgeon Posted Nude Pics Online, Patients Claim in Lawsuits

If this was your body, would you feel violated?​Five women who hired St. Louis physician Dr. Michele Koo to perform plastic surgery on them say they got a nasty surprise -- pictures of their naked torsos were posted on Dr. Koo's website.And that's not all. The pictures came up in an Internet searc ... More >>

Facebook Seeks to Dismiss Illinois Class-Action; Mothers Claim Children Exploited

​Facebook has asked a federal judge in southern Illinois to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed in June on behalf of two Granite City moms. The suit filed on behalf of the children of Melissa Dawes and Jennifer DeYoung alleges that Facebook inappropriately uses its "like" feature to monitor the ... More >>

East St. Louis Discriminated In Not Hiring White Officers, Federal Jury Finds

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMayor Alvin Parks did not have much to smile about Wednesday.​Two black residents of East St. Louis won a civil rights lawsuit this week in southern Illinois complaining that they were harassed and discriminated against when they recommended that the predominately black c ... More >>

Apple Inc. Sued by Missourians for Tracking iPhone Users' Whereabouts

It knows where you are! And other people can use it to find out. ​Next time you get black-out wasted on Goldschlager and wake up behind a strip mall, you might have no idea where you are. But your iPhone does. In fact, it's been tracking -- and recording -- your spatial location since the moment y ... More >>

Man Sues Bar After Getting Nailed in Face by Underage Boozer

Is this the man who hit a Belleville man in the face with a bottle of vodka?​An underage guy walks into a bar. He somehow gets his hands on a bottle of vodka and takes a few swills. Eventually, he gets a little tipsy. In an uncontrolled moment of gesticulation, he swings his arm around wildly ... More >>

$60 Million A.G. Edwards Settlement Gets Appeals Court OK

It's $21 million for the lawyers who steered a lawsuit against A.G. Edwards, alleging unjust enrichment.​A $60 million class-action settlement agreement between A.G. Edwards and a group of account holders who accused the company of a conflict of interest and unjust enrichment has been permitted to ... More >>

American Red Cross Faces Lawsuit Over Race Discrimination

A lawsuit alleges that a local chapter of the American Red Cross discriminated against an Illinois woman.​A  telerecruiter at the American Red Cross has filed a lawsuit alleging racial, sexual and age-related discrimination after being fired last December.Rosalind Clayton, a 48-year-old black ... More >>

Missouri Families Win Lawsuit vs. Neighbors: 200,000 Hogs, Tons of Fly-Covered Pig Poop

Who wouldn't want a few hundred thousand of these as neighbors? ​A corporate hog producer was ordered Friday to pay a total of $1.95 million to twelve families in southwestern Missouri who complained that odors and flies from the company's pig farm ruined their properties and way of life.According ... More >>

Taxicab Commission Sued Over Lambert Fees

Two St. Louis cabbies say they've been unfairly assessed $1 each time they leave Lambert.​A pair of cabbies has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, arguing that the $1 fee they're required to pay for each trip through Lambert St. Louis International Airport constitutes an ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Sues St. Charles City; Wins Injunction vs. St. Charles County

Plaintiff Megan Phelps-Roper protesting in St. Louis last summer.​It took the Westboro Baptist Church just one day to sue St. Charles after the city last week enacted an ordinance restricting when and where protesters can picket during funerals. Westboro Baptist Church has made a name for itself i ... More >>

Black Sheriff Deputies Once Again Dicked Over by the Man

troycardona.comTroy Cardona administers a little Jeff-Co street justice in the STL.​A Jefferson County judge yesterday drastically reduced the damages that two black St. Louis sheriff deputies won in a September trial alleging racial discrimination. Saying the $350,000 in punitive damages awarded ... More >>

Darryl Burton: Wrongfully Convicted Ex-Prisoner Sues St. Louis, Police Board

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergDarryl Burton photographed last year.​Updated 4:06 p.m. with comments from Burton's attorney.Darryl Burton served 24 years in prison for a St. Louis murder he didn't commit. In 2008, Cole County Judge Richard Callahan (now the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Missouri) released ... More >>

PartyLite Smackdown: So-Called Barbecue Leads to $2 Million Lawsuit

​If you thought Tupperware-style direct sales parties were all fun and games, guess again. A lawsuit filed in federal court this week argues that a St. Louis woman should pay $2 million for damages incurred by a barbecue she held in her home -- claiming she invited colleagues from one direct- ... More >>

Jive & Wail in Maplewood Sued for Copyright Infringement by BMI

jiveandwail.com​Performance-rights giant BMI and several other copyright-owners have sued the Maplewood outpost of the Jive & Wail for copyright infringement In documents filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, multiple plaintiffs accused the Jive & Wail piano bar in Maplewood of nineteen in ... More >>

Class-Action Suit Calls YTB a Pyramid Scheme

​A class-action lawsuit first filed in federal court in Illinois has been re-filed in Madison County accusing the Wood River-based YTB of being a "pyramid scheme." The lawsuit follows years of allegations that YTB -- which sells home-based travel companies -- operates as a Ponzi scheme. In 2009, t ... More >>

Mother Sues Soulard Haunted House; Claims Daughter Poisoned By Artificial Fog

Thrill seekers gather outside The Darkness in October 2008.​A fifteen-year-old from Belleville got the fright of her life last Halloween at the popular Soulard haunted house, The Darkness. Only the scare didn't come from the advanced animatronics and dozens of costumed goons that have made the St. ... More >>

North Side Rancor: A quartet of legal eagles aim to shoot down Paul McKee's grandiose vision to regenerate St. Louis

Dog's Bark Prompts Officer's Bite: Suit Claims Cop Aimed for Canine, Shot Woman Instead

Officer Donald Williams Knotts​Poor, poor Linda Hicks of Washington Park, Illinois. She was only trying to do the right thing last year when she called the police to remove her disruptive son from her home. In a lawsuit filed in St. Clair County, Hicks alleges that Washington Park police officer D ... More >>

Trial Alleging Business Fraud Should Be Lively, Even If Much is Off Limits

healthcareeragents.com Brian Marchant-CalsynAn interesting civil trial gets under way today in St. Louis County Court. Gary Schwarz, a New Jersey resident, is suing Town & Country business Health Career Agents Inc., alleging that its owner, Brian Marchant-Calsyn, fraudently withheld infor ... More >>

Law and Anarchy

St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and his officers may stand trial for violating the civil rights of “anarchists” in 2003.

Rockwell Revisited

If not Steven Spielberg, who legally owns Russian Schoolroom?

Back to the Bolozone

The "anarchists" finally get their day in court.

The Price of Innocence

Larry Johnson wants big bucks for a crime he never committed

Debt Comes to the Archbishop

A sad chapter in the church's history is far from over

Gland of Opportunity

Dr. William J. Catalona built an unrivaled repository of blood and tissue samples. Washington University wants to keep it. Now a judge will decide: Who owns the prostates?

The Case of the Vanishing Videotape

A workhouse inmate claims he was wrongly beaten, and city officials scramble to get their stories straight

Gone A-Courtin'

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, recovering from one legal loss, looks to the next lawsuit

Fueled by Fear

Refineries stuck Hartford with a toxic pool of gasoline that just won't go away. Homes burn and residents get sick, but nobody's helping.

Time Bomb

Asbestos still takes its toll, but the lawsuits and victims are changing

You Don't Know Dick

He's for tort reform but takes trial lawyers' money and sues docs

Slaphappy

The mayor of tony Creve Coeur and her husband found a novel way of handling political disputes -- they sue critics

Lead Counsel

These lawyers could cash in big, but who hired them?

Squeal Like a Pig

Getting groped was a nightmare in a city that can't get a grip.

Venue's on the Menu

For lawyers trying to take a bite of Doe Run, St. Louis is the place to be

The Lead Menace

In its lawsuit, St. Louis is eager to blame the lead industry for making the area one of the most contaminated in the nation. But the city itself is guilty of doing little to prevent the poisoning of thousands of children like "Little Al" Evans.

WHITE NOISE

The appointment of a senior executive of the discrimination-claim-plagued Adam's Mark chain to a leadership position in the St. Louis County NAACP stirs outrage