If there is one aspect of trademark law that should be the most understandable for business leaders and their lawyers, if not for the general public, it’s that you generally cannot get trademarks on purely descriptive terms. Yes, you can name your product Coca-Cola and get a trademark on that term, but you cannot get […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving the city of St. Charles and Ameren 21 days to reach an agreement for entry by Ameren representatives to investigate and work on the Elm Point Wellfield.
In a letter signed Monday, the EPA is asking for entry by representatives of Ameren to access St. Charles property "for the purposes of investigating and responding to environmental conditions at this location."
The letter states Ameren needs access to St. Charles property for monitoring existing…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. In a lengthy story published Thursday, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization catalogs various trips Thomas has taken aboard Crow's yacht and [...]
We are approximately a year away from experiencing another total solar eclipse. Missouri and Illinois are two of 15 states in the contiguous United States that will be in the path of totality.
In 1968 Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but the nomination failed because Republicans, along with some Southern Democrats, filibustered it. The Southerners didn't like the fact that Fortas was Jewish. Republicans, however, pointed to Fortas's receipt of $15,000 in private funds to give nine speeches at a ...continue reading "Republicans don’t care about Clarence Thomas’s lavish vacations"
Former St. Charles County Councilman Joseph McCulloch, the brother of former St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, is among 11 applicants to succeed Tim Lohmar as St. Charles County prosecutor.
Mötley Crüe has shared a response to Mick Mars' lawsuit against the band, calling the filing "unfortunate and completely off-base" in a statement to Billboard. As previously reported, Mars' suit…
This week Republicans have: Loudly defended Donald Trump against charges of lawbreaking that he's obviously guilty of.¹ One of them even boasted that he would prevent extradition of Trump to New York, something that's clearly unconstitutional. Expelled a Democrat from the Tennessee legislature for bad behavior, with two more to come. Arrested the teenage son ...continue reading "The Republican week in review"
St. Louis County must recognize the city police officer's union as the collective bargaining group for county prosecutors and investigators, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The employees in 2018 voted to join the St. Louis Police Officers Association, but the county didn't meet with the union.
The union sued the county in 2020, and a trial court upheld the 2018 secret ballot election. The county appealed that decision, arguing the election was void because it was not conducted by the Missouri State…
This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 30, 2023. Leaders of the project to build a $55 million advanced manufacturing center in St. Louis say it will meet the needs of industry and potentially create hundreds of new businesses while providing “strong, diverse and equitable growth” for the region. The federal government last September awarded a […]
An Illinois couple in their early 20s were charged on Tuesday with the murder of their 3-month-old boy, who died in St. Louis last spring. The Illinois State Police said on Tuesday that Logan Hutchings and Sophia Kelly, both 21, brought their child, Ocean, to a hospital in St. Louis last June. The baby was found to be suffering a skull fracture and multiple rib fractures.
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