SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A divided Illinois Supreme Court has again rejected a $10.1 billion class-action judgment against cigarette maker Phillip Morris over its marketing of “low-tar” tobacco products. The 4-2 ruling released Wednesday vacates a 2014 decision by Illinois’ 5th District Appellate Court to reinstate the Madison County verdict. The state Supreme Court first…
( KTRS ) A public interest law firm is suing the city of Pagedale in federal court, for it’s ticketing practices. The Arlington, Virginia-based Institute for Justice filed the lawsuit Wednesday in St. Louis, asking a judge to stop the city of Pagedale from enforcing city codes that the plaintiffs call for-profit and unconstitutional. The…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A group of St. Louis University law school students moved a previously scheduled discussion about Planned Parenthood off school property Tuesday after feeling external pressure from the university. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1GKFZ9A ) the university’s chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice had planned to host a discussion centered…
( KTRS ) An East St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to killing a University of Missouri student after what prosecutors call a botched 2013 drug deal. 26 year-old Deneshion Swope pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in Madison County Circuit Court in the shooting death of 21-year-old Jarrett Mosby of Collinsville. Police say Mosby…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Democrats have gained a seat in the Missouri House as a result of special elections held to fill several vacancies. Three empty House seats were on the ballot Tuesday. Democrats won two of them, including one that had previously been held by a Republican. In suburban Kansas City, Democrat Rory…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri officials say revenues for the fiscal year that started July 1 are about 3 percent higher than they were in 2015. Acting budget director Dan Haug says individual income tax collections are up 6.2 percent for the July-through-October period this year, going from $1.8 million in FY 2015 to…
( KTRS ) The execution of a Missouri man scheduled for Tuesday has been put on hold and appears unlikely to happen Wednesday, either. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night granted a stay of execution for Ernest Lee Johnson, who was convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer. The case…
( KTRS ) Missouri is set to execute a man convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer during a robbery in Columbia in 1994. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die today and would be the seventh person put to death in Missouri this year. Johnson had part of a benign brain…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A portrait of former Speaker Dennis Hastert has been removed from a hallway outside the House chamber. Just last week, the Illinois Republican pleaded guilty to breaking banking laws in a hush money scheme. The portrait has hung for years in the Speaker’s Lobby, a plush area just outside the chamber where…
