Jonathan Sternberg

Even though the state Supreme Court did not take a case involving Kansas City’s smoking ban in indoor public places, sustaining the ban, the issue in that case could occur in the St. Louis area. This is the view…

The state Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Kansas City’s smoking ban in indoor public places. The court did not accept to an argument that the city could not ban smoking in places where it was allowed or not…

Sen. Bond

WASHINGTON — There’s a lot of talk about something called Ricci v. DeStefano in breaking down President Barack Obama’s nomination of Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Soon, the conversation could shift to GOP v. Irked Conservatives.

Ricci v. DeStefano is the alleged reverse…

Blunt, left, and Clay

Southwest Missouri Republican Roy Blunt and St. Louis Democrat Lacy Clay – who, as members of the U.S. House, will be spectators like the rest of us to the Senate’s Supreme Court confirmation process –  have nonetheless offered…

Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill called in to Fox News today to offer her thoughts on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor with the president and vice president

President Barack Obama this morning selected appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court, putting her in line to become the court’s first Hispanic justice.

However, sports fans in St. Louis and…

Judge Limbaugh

If you’re the only Republican on stage at inauguration day, why not make a statement.

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, the lone member of the GOP to win statewide office in November, will have U.S. District Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. swearing…

Gov. Matt Blunt’s office has just posted the answers to the 50 questions he asked of the three finalists for the Missouri Supreme Court.

The lengthy documents contain some interesting trivia, such as Judge Zel Fischer’s grade point average at William…

ST. PAUL — Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth says veep nominee Sarah Palin was the target of a coordinated attack from the left — just like his friend and protege, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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This could be the talk of the St. Louis Bar Association’s next meeting.

Two of the biggest legal names in the area sat opposite one another today in a court hearing for a suit brought by State Rep. Rodney Hubbard, who…