Most Recent Articles from Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press

• Symposium to explore civil rights legal history in St. Louis area 

  Starting with the infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857, a large number of significant civil rights cases have arisen out of St. Louis. To draw...

  03/19/09 by Angela Riley · More from publication

• Jackson County jury finds for defense after 8-week trial 

  Eight weeks of trying to convince a jury that one of the country's largest banks wiped out a start-up credit card processing company came to...

  03/19/09 by Scott Lauck · More from publication

• IRS ramping up collection efforts 

  The current tax season is tougher than most for Americans. With unemployment and home foreclosures at record highs, more can't afford to pay -- and...

  03/19/09 by Angela Riley · More from publication

• Missouri appeals court affirms $1M verdict in defamation case 

  A Missouri appeals court upheld a $1 million verdict against Allstate Indemnity Co. in a lawsuit claiming the insurer defamed a homeowner in a...

  03/19/09 by Donna Walter · More from publication

• Missouri Supreme Court upholds officer's firing for excessive force 

  The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners had the authority to fire a police officer who beat and spit on a drunken driver who was already...

  03/18/09 by Donna Walter · More from publication

• Missouri Supreme Court rejects challenge from sex offender 

  The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a challenge from a sex offender who incurred a prison sentence when he did not register a change of address...

  03/18/09 by Jason Rosenbaum · More from publication

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