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  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Supreme Court Decision on Missouri Sex Offender Carries Implications Across U.S.

    A sex case that began in Missouri and passed through Pennsylvania continued its path all the way to Washington, where this week U.S. Supreme Court released an opinion that poses just as many questions as answers when it comes to sex-offender registration laws. In a 7-2 ruling announced January 23, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Literally, "See You in Court!"

    It won't exactly be Law & Order, but Illinois' courtroom dramas could soon be coming to a living room near you. In an announcement titled "Extended Media Coverage In the Circuit Courts of Illinois on an Experimental Basis," the Illinois Supreme Court yesterday ordered that video and still cameras ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    BZP the New Ecstasy? In the Eyes of Federal Judges, Yes

    ​Let's say you're a drug dealer, but the particular pills you peddle aren't exactly mainstream; in fact they're not even included in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Drug Quantity Table, even though they're illegal. Now let's say you get busted. How is a judge supposed to sentence you? The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Westboro Baptist Church Wins Another Legal Battle in Missouri

    ​Whatever your thoughts are about the "God Hates Fags" mantra of the Westboro Baptist Church, it cannot be said that the organization does not know its rights and how to defend them in court. Once again the controversial, Kansas-based church has won a legal decision in Missouri. The latest came ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Post-Dispatch Sued (Again) Over Retiree Benefits

    ​The beleaguered St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- already fending off a lawsuit from the Newspaper Guild over retiree benefits -- now faces another suit from the union representing its mailroom workers.The CWA Local 14620, also known as the St. Louis Mailers Union No. 3, represents the 220 employees who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Court of Appeals: Prison Employees Aren't Liable for Inmate's Attack

    ​Let's say an inmate is attacked by fellow inmates wearing masks, then put in an isolated environment for a 30-day period, presumably for protection while the matter is sorted out. The inmate pleads to correctional officers to be kept in protective custody, claiming that his assailants warned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    City's Sign Code Violates First Amendment, Appeals Court Rules

    Jim Roos' big ol' sign at Interstates 44 and 55. ​Activist Jim Roos got slapped down in 2007 when he applied for a permit for his huge "End Eminent Domain" mural near Interstates 44 and 55. The city said "No," citing the sign code. But yesterday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in turn slapped ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Archdiocese Not Liable For Pedophile Priest Robert Johnston

    courtesy of SNAP MidwestRobert Johnston: not the archdiocese's fault that they hired a perv.​Score one for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. Because, as a legal ruling today makes clear, even if a Christian ethicist would hold the church accountable for allowing a predatory priest to run roug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    No You May Not Use Your Dad's Identity, Say Courts

    OK, son. You can have my identity. But just this once. ​But daddy said I could! Apparently, federal judges don't necessarily care what daddy says. At least when it comes to identity theft. In an opinion released today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, judges affir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Today in Chain-Restaurant Litigation: Chipotle Loses, Taco Bell "Wins"

    Image via​Some days it feels like every major national restaurant chain is involved in litigation.Today is one of those days.First, we have this report from the San Francisco Chronicle that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to listen to an appeal from mega-burrito kingpins Chipotle after a lower ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Homophobia is Protected Speech

    It's a marketplace of ideas. Some of them are terrible.​It's been a great week for folks who hate lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people -- and want the world to know about it.The Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that those hate-spewing assholes from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas are pr ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    Return to Sender: What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got moving?

    It's a marketplace of ideas. Some of them are terrible.​It's been a great week for folks who hate lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people -- and want the world to know about it.The Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that those hate-spewing assholes from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas are pr ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution and doesn't work

    It's a marketplace of ideas. Some of them are terrible.​It's been a great week for folks who hate lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people -- and want the world to know about it.The Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that those hate-spewing assholes from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas are pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Costco Condemns Veal

    Costco condemns veal producer at urging of animal rights group. The Associated Press reports that the Washington-based wholesale club was presented a video of Buckeye Veal Farm in Ohio, made by animal rights group Mercy for Animals. The video shows calves chained in pens too small for them to lie do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    St. Louis Wins Decision Vs. Eminent Domain Mural

    ij.orgRoos and his sign.​The U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri today ruled in favor of St. Louis City in a suit over a well-known sign south of downtown. In 2007 activist Jim Roos painted a mural on the side of a building with the message: "End Eminent Domain Abuse." At the time, the buildin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Missouri Attorney General Calls for Execution of Man Linked to Larry Flynt Shooting

    Larry Flynt has been in a wheelchair since the 1978 shooting.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution dates for two convicted murderers. The first, Joseph Franklin, was convicted in 1997 for the shooting death twenty years earlier of a man out ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2009

    Miracle Man: Darryl Burton forgives St. Louis. He just doesn't trust it.

    Larry Flynt has been in a wheelchair since the 1978 shooting.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution dates for two convicted murderers. The first, Joseph Franklin, was convicted in 1997 for the shooting death twenty years earlier of a man out ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    Readers mull Monsanto and Mexico

    Larry Flynt has been in a wheelchair since the 1978 shooting.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution dates for two convicted murderers. The first, Joseph Franklin, was convicted in 1997 for the shooting death twenty years earlier of a man out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    8th U.S. Circuit Court to Mexican Immigrants: "Adios, illegals!"

    Jennifer Silverberg Former Valley Park Mayor Jeffery Whitteaker led the fight to pass the anti-illegal immigrant ordinance in 2006In a ruling that could have national implications, Valley Park's controversial and long-debated ordinance prohibiting city employers from hiring illegal immi ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2008

    Fizzled Out: Andrew Gladney, heir to the 7-Up fortune, is off to a federal penitentiary

    Jennifer Silverberg Former Valley Park Mayor Jeffery Whitteaker led the fight to pass the anti-illegal immigrant ordinance in 2006In a ruling that could have national implications, Valley Park's controversial and long-debated ordinance prohibiting city employers from hiring illegal immi ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    English, Por Favor: Is speaking in Spanish a firing offense?

    Jennifer Silverberg Former Valley Park Mayor Jeffery Whitteaker led the fight to pass the anti-illegal immigrant ordinance in 2006In a ruling that could have national implications, Valley Park's controversial and long-debated ordinance prohibiting city employers from hiring illegal immi ... More >>

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Guilt-Edged

    Pugnacious defense attorney Frank "Tony" Fabbri never backed away from a fight. Then the lawyer ran afoul of the law.

  • News

    October 10, 2007

    Law and Anarchy

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

  • News

    November 3, 2004

    A Shot in the Arm

    A federal appeals court says Darryl Burton might very well be innocent of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball. But there's nothing they can do about it.

  • News

    June 16, 2004

    Road Rules

    When a checkpoint isn't really a checkpoint, the constitutional forecast is cloudy

  • News

    October 8, 2003

    The Case of the Vanishing Videotape

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

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    So Long, Joe

    While Joe Amrine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they may be wrong

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Dead Man Voting

    St. Louis elections are a national joke. Trouble is, it's not funny anymore.

  • News

    April 3, 2002

    Judging Mariano

    The circuit clerk and the city's judges square off on the public's right to know. The clerk and the public are losing.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    The Ethics Omission

    Enforcers of Missouri's campaign-finance laws would rather hide than seek.

  • Culture

    February 14, 2001

    Cough It Up

    The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    A Cheney Link to St. Louis

    Published the week of July 26-August 1, 2000

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    The Olmstead Challenge

    The U.S. Supreme Court says it's time to end segregation: People with disabilities must be allowed to leave institutions and move into the community. Sounds great -- except the state's overwhelmed and the community's nowhere near ready.

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Tin Soldiers and Nixon (Still) Coming

    Arrest of Vietnam protester Howard Mechanic is just another war crime

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Howard's End

    After nearly three decades on the run, a fugitive from the raucous anti-war era is outed

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    DON'T STOP — GET STARTED

    Former Aldermanic President Francis Slay lays the blame for his mayoral candidacy at incumbent Clarence Harmon's door

  • News

    August 18, 1999

    HEAVEN HELP US: THE NATIVITY FLAP IS BACK

    Former Aldermanic President Francis Slay lays the blame for his mayoral candidacy at incumbent Clarence Harmon's door

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    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

  • News

    August 4, 1999

    FREE AT LAST

    Ellen Reasonover is released from jail after 16 years

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Feature

    Ellen Reasonover is released from jail after 16 years

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Letters to the Editor

    Ellen Reasonover is released from jail after 16 years

  • News

    December 2, 1998

    Money Doesn't Buy Politicians?

    Even the worst judges ought to know better than that

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