The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a company cannot fire a union member for yelling racist insults at replacement workers crossing a picket line,…
A federal appeals court has ruled class action lawyers did not abuse the judicial process when they dropped a federal lawsuit and refiled it in Arkansas state court with a proposed settlement.
Initially convicted by a federal jury in a bankruptcy fraud case related to a client real estate developer’s financial collapse, an Arkansas attorney is now in the clear.
The birth-control mandate under the Affordable Care Act amounts to a substantial burden for a residential-care facility that claims to have an integral Christian identity, a three-judge panel from 8th…
A Jones Day partner won’t have to make a training video explaining the impropriety of excessive deposition interruptions as a result of a ruling by a federal appeals court.
A federal appeals court has questioned the Supreme Court’s abortion standards while striking down a strict North Dakota abortion law that generally banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat…
A federal judge exceeded his authority when he ordered a defendant to refrain from unprotected sex after his release from prison, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A former employee who claimed disability discrimination by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice won’t be able to pursue her case, according to a federal appeals court.
Two men who met during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police slaying of Michael Brown admitted Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis that they planned to blow up…
Two men stole tens of millions of dollars from Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines over a 20-year period through a relatively simple billing fraud, authorities say.
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