Citadel Plaza problems prompt another lawsuit (access required)

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 (access required)

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 (access required)

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  (access required)

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 (access required)

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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  (access required)

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 (access required)

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 (access required)

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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 (access required)

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 [...]

NEWSMAKERS  (access required)

Robert H. Bernstein and Edwin C. Ernst IV are starting up a St. Louis office for Atlanta-based labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith. Both attorneys formerly were with Thompson Coburn. Bernstein, who heads the new office, has more than 27 years of management-side labor and employment experience and focuses on litigation and [...]

  • Court approves $56M deal with former IBC exec (access required)
    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.

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