Toyota recall cost will exceed $2B estimate 
Lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker, will push the cost of recalls linked to sudden acceleration past a $2 billion company estimate for warranty payments and lost sales, customer lawyers say.
People who purchased Toyota vehicles in the U.S. have filed at least 34 class action lawsuits - including lawsuits in Missouri and [...]
Citadel Plaza problems prompt another lawsuit
The Kansas City Tax Increment Financing Commission is seeing more litigation connected to a failed redevelopment project in south Kansas City.
This time it’s from the developer of the project itself.
The flopped Southtown Urban Life Redevelopment Plan slated a shopping center and other businesses on 60 acres of Kansas City’s urban core near 63rd and Prospect [...]
County, city TIF suit isn’t over yet
The heat behind a lawsuit that started between Jackson County and the city of Kansas City last month may have diminished, but an upcoming trial date still looms.
Kansas City in late January introduced an ordinance that would give all 11 members of its Tax Increment Financing Commission full voting rights. The change would settle claims [...]
Here’s my two cents: Money equals speech
The 183-page PDF file that constitutes the U.S. Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission can be reduced to three words and a simple admonition.
The three-words: Money equals speech. The simple admonition: Political speech is political speech, even if it comes from a corporation.
Protecting political speech is at the core of the [...]
Missouri is a fortunate exception to Citizens United
Although the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission could affect elections in every state and at all levels of government, one very important group of elected state officials will be unaffected - judges who run in retention elections instead of contested races.
These judges preside over cases in the 33 states [...]
Court approves $56M deal with former IBC exec
People walk outside Interstate Bakeries Corp.’s operations center in Kansas City on Monday. A federal court recently approved a $56 million settlement that stemmed from the company’s bankruptcy proceedings.
Women’s Justice Awards announced
With its statewide expansion of the Women’s Justice Awards, Missouri Lawyers Media will honor outstanding female lawyers from all corners of the state in 2010.
The top honoree, former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Ann Covington, represents the new statewide scope of the awards, which had honored St. Louis-area women in the law since the awards [...]
Nurse gets work comp for trip while on-the-job
An appeals court quietly explained last week why it gave an employee a rare win under the state’s revised workers’ compensation laws.
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District issued an opinion Tuesday that a Kansas City nurse could receive workers’ compensation after she injured her ankle while wearing work-related shoes.
“Accepting that she did not wear [...]
Former Ballwin prosecutor pleads guilty in child porn case
A municipal law attorney and former Ballwin city prosecutor pleaded guilty on Monday to possessing child pornography.
George Richard Fox is facing a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000. Fox, 67, was an attorney with Curtis, Heinz, Garrett & O’Keefe until he resigned in August. Fox resigned as Ballwin’s [...]
Second modified rice trial nets $1.5M verdict
When it comes to his multi-district litigation against Bayer CropScience, St. Louis plaintiffs’ attorney Don Downing now boasts a 2-0 record.
Last Thursday a St. Louis federal jury returned a $1.5 million verdict against the Germany-based biotech giant. It’s the second of four test trials over the alleged mixing of genetically modified rice seeds with the [...]
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