The Eighth Circuit told a lower court to dissolve a preliminary injunction blocking police from using tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protesters if it hasn’t issued a final decision by Halloween.
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A local minority police union says the battle against systemic racism within police departments has raged forever and is an issue throughout the country.
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A Missouri appeals court upheld the decision to disqualify St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from prosecuting gun charges against Mark McCloskey, the white attorney who waved an AR-15 rifle at civil rights protesters in front of his mansion last summer.
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Citing a pair of political fundraising emails, a city judge on Thursday disqualified Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from prosecuting Mark McCloskey on gun charges, in a case that made national headlines after the white attorney waved an AR-15 rifle outside of his mansion amid protesters.
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A lawyer for the white St. Louis couple who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters this summer argued during a hearing Wednesday that the city’s top prosecutor should be dismissed from the criminal case against his clients.
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A couple who drew national headlines after waving guns at hundreds of civil rights protesters in front of their St. Louis home were indicted Tuesday afternoon by a city grand jury.
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In a tersely worded order, a federal judge on Wednesday tossed a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner asserting a conspiracy to force her out.
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At a hearing before an Eighth Circuit panel Wednesday, a St. Louis city attorney pushed back on claims that it is police department custom to use excessive force including tear gas and pepper spray on protesters.
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Darren Wilson, the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in August 2014, will not be charged with any crimes.
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The Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that a former St. Louis circuit attorney is entitled to absolute immunity over her prosecution of a white former police officer, whose acquittal in the death of a black motorist sparked a wave of often violent protests.
Read moreJoining millions of others across the country, thousands of protesters took to the streets of downtown St. Louis on Sunday afternoon to protest institutional racism and police brutality in honor of George Floyd.
Read moreA bold decision by St. Louis-area protest leaders yielded immediate results as there were no reports of looting or violence late Tuesday night.
Read moreState and local governments, a favorite target of the 1,279 coronavirus-related lawsuits filed since April 1, often for stay-at-home orders, finally fired back Monday, when St. Louis County sued House of Pain Gym Services, for opening its two gyms in defiance of a county order.
Read moreA federal class action protests St. Louis’ demand to evacuate homeless camps in public parks under threat of arrest, as the 500 to 600 homeless people have no place else to go, and arresting them would be cruel and unusual punishment.
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A white former police officer whose acquittal in the death of a black suspect set off weeks of protests argued Wednesday before the Eighth Circuit that St. Louis officials were not entitled to immunity from his defamation lawsuit.
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A federal judge did not adequately weigh a new Missouri Supreme Court rule for cash bail bonds before issuing an injunction prohibiting the practice in St. Louis city courts, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
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A police union spokesman on Tuesday called St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner the worst prosecutor in the country, a day after she accused the union and city of a racist conspiracy to force her out.
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A lawyer for four people who claim they were held in a debtors’ jail in St. Louis argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Thursday that a recent change in bail procedures does not make their case moot.
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National Football League team owners and other high-level league officials will have to turn over eight years of cellphone records as part of a lawsuit over the Rams’ move to Los Angeles, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreA federal judge refused St. Louis’ request to dismiss a civil rights complaint from protesters of police brutality, as evidence indicates police may have a practice of using chemical agents against protesters without providing warning or leaving them a means of egress.
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