Former baseball player wins suit over contract 
The timing of the Kansas City Royals’ 2007 opening day played a large role in a contracts suit against a former Royals outfielder.
As the clock ticked toward the Royals’ April 2, 2007, opener against the Boston Red Sox, player Emil Brown became less concerned with a woman’s threats to go public with an assault allegation.
If [...]
Six Flags theme park settles trademark suit
A hotel located a mile from a Six Flags theme park in St. Louis County is creating a new Web site scrubbed clean of any reference to the theme park, the hotel’s lawyer said.
The old Web site, daysinn6flags.com, is no longer operative and will be replaced with daysinneureka.com, the lawyer, Christopher Bent, said.
Before the site [...]
Jury finds for medical group over infant’s death
A St. Charles County jury found for the defending medical group in a suit brought by a couple whose infant son died because of an abdominal aortic clot.
On Sept. 26, 2001, Cynthia and Jason Swain’s son was delivered vaginally at full term following an uneventful pregnancy. The newborn successfully breastfed at the hospital and was [...]
Woman wins lawsuit over mother’s murder
A Jackson County jury awarded $3 million to a woman suing her stepfather for the shooting death of her mother.
Defendant John Koch Jr., 72, now a patient at Fulton State Hospital, was found mentally incompetent to stand for a criminal trial for the murder of his wife, so Kristie Kramer filed a wrongful death lawsuit [...]
Class action suit resolved over unwanted calls
A $750,000 class-action settlement of a lawsuit over unwanted phone calls has won final approval in St. Louis Circuit Court.
The lawsuit filed in 2005 against 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and its St. Louis franchise Junk Doctors claimed the companies violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making unsolicited pre-recorded advertising calls.
The companies haul away old stuff from [...]
Jury finds for family of man killed in collision
The largest McDonald County jury verdict to date, $1 million, was delivered to the surviving family members of a tractor-trailer driver from Arkansas who was killed in a collision with another tractor-trailer.
In August 2007, 60-year-old Jimmy Evans was driving a tractor-trailer for Crossroads Trucking northbound on U.S. Highway 71. Adara Smith was operating a tractor-trailer [...]
Jury finds hog farm must pay neighbors for smell
A Jackson County jury awarded more than $11 million to 15 rural Missouri plaintiffs suing over the stench coming from an industrial hog farm in Gentry County.
The case is one in a series of roughly 100 pending lawsuits involving about 250 plaintiffs over hog farms near their properties.
The jury agreed $825,000 each would go to [...]
Woman settles over damage from drugs
A Jackson County woman who allegedly suffered permanent brain damage from overdosing on opioids during a hospital stay settled for a confidential amount with the treating health center and prescribing physician.
The plaintiff, a 67-year-old retired nurse, went to a hospital around midnight on July 27, 2006, with complaints of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Upon [...]
Judge sides with renter in counterclaim
A judge awarded a woman over $1 million in her slip-and-fall counterclaim against her apartment complex.
Donna Downing filed a counterclaim against WLA Quail Run in Platte County after the apartment complex filed a rent-and-possession action against her.
“We were researching the claim at the time when she lost her job due to her injuries,” said Downing’s [...]
Jury not convinced woman was injured at Wal-Mart
A St. Louis County jury cleared Wal-Mart of all wrongdoing in a lawsuit that alleged one of its greeters assaulted a customer.
Helen Burnett accused Wal-Mart greeter Ronald Shelly of ramming her motorized shopping cart into a wall, injuring her right leg.
On Jan. 27, 2007, Burnett went into the Wal-Mart store in St. Ann to pick [...]