ST. LOUIS RECORD

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer offered to settle Roundup cancer suits, but U.S. District Judge Chhabria is skeptical of the settlement.

JEFFERSON CITY – The annual CNBC ranking of the best and worst states for business came out last month and Missouri found itself in the middle of the pack.

JEFFERSON CITY – Each year, CNBC ranks the best and worst states when it comes to business. The state of Missouri seems stuck in the middle as it ranked 23rd overall and 27th for its regulatory and legal climate. In all, the Show Me State received a C grade in business friendliness for the second straight year.

JEFFERSON CITY – There have been three trials in California against Bayer that have sided with plaintiffs over their allegations that the glyphosate in the herbicide Roundup caused cancer despite regulatory agencies concluding that glyphosate is not harmful to humans.

ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Two Missouri residents have filed suit against a litigation finance company in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri on April 17 over claims the defendant charged exorbitant interest rates.

NEOSHO — A trial attorney who has practiced law for 21 years is running for an associate judgeship in Newton County for the 2018 election.

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Close to 250 customers in the Hillcrest Manor subdivision will have to pay utility rate hikes of $25 to $150 per month after a ruling was upheld by the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis jury recently ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson, rejecting a Tennessee woman’s claims that her use of its baby powder contributed to her ovarian cancer.

ST. LOUIS — In late February, about a week before the St. Louis mayoral Democratic primary, candidate Lyda Krewson received a donation from an unlikely source.

CLAYTON — The case against against a St. Louis County lawyer, who is accused of stealing a court document from a file, has been going on for more than two years, and it has yet to be resolved.