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Municipal judges aren’t city employees, court rules 
A state appeals court says the city of Kansas City was within its rights to reject an applicant for a municipal judgeship because she was white. The decision reverses a $2.1 million verdict against the city. Melissa Howard sued the Kansas City Council after it twice rejected her and two other white women for the municipal [...]
Continue reading...Better Courts can intervene in ballot challenge
6. January 2010
A Cole County judge allowed attorneys for a proponent of direct judicial elections to intervene in a lawsuit over an initiative petition’s ballot language. Last year, James Harris submitted a constitutional amendment for circulation to put judges chosen under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan up for elections. Opponents of the measure sued, citing problems with the [...]
Continue reading...Better Courts steps into court plan legal challenge
31. December 2009
It turns out those opposed to changing judicial selection aren’t the only ones who can tap well-known legal names in Missouri. James Harris leads an organization that wants to change the way Missouri chooses its judges. But supporters of the current system have filed legal challenges to the state-approved ballot summaries, so they’re tied up in [...]
Continue reading...Bryan Cave works on $16.8 billion UC Rusal loan restructuring
4. December 2009
The St. Louis-based firm of Bryan Cave played a role in restructuring the $16.8 billion debt of a Russian aluminum producer that plans to go public. UC Rusal announced yesterday that it reached a restructuring deal of about 50 credit agreements with more than 70 lenders. The restructuring includes “pay-if-you-can” principal repayments based on the business’s [...]
Continue reading...Panel selected for Western District vacancy
3. December 2009
The Appellate Judicial Commission has nominated Circuit Judge Catharine Ann Mesle, attorney John J. Miller and Associate Circuit Judge Gary D. Witt for a spot on the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. Mesle, 63, of Kansas City, is a circuit judge in Jackson County. She has been on the court since 2000; prior to [...]
Continue reading...44 seek out appellate judgeship in Western District
1. December 2009
More than 40 attorneys have applied to fill an opening on the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District, the Appellate Judicial Commission released this afternoon.The vacancy is left by Judge Hal Lowenstein, who retired in August after 28 years on the appellate bench. The commission received 44 applications, which included 12 women and 32 men. Of [...]
Continue reading...Evidence expert to offer CLE in Mo. next month
25. November 2009
A national expert on what constitutes solid forensic evidence will be in St. Louis next week to teach lawyers about the standards and future of expert testimony. Edward Imwinkelried, a law professor at University of California-Davis, wrote the book “Scientific Evidence,” cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark 1993 ruling of Daubert v. Merrell [...]
Continue reading...New court plan amendment language OK’d for signatures
12. November 2009
An amendment to move Missouri to direct judicial elections statewide has been approved to begin gathering voters’ signatures. The secretary of state’s office this afternoon said it approved the ballot summary and the cost estimate for the latest version of a proposed constitutional change brought by those who want to undo the current judicial selection process. James [...]
Continue reading...Runoff election declared for 21st Judicial Commission
9. November 2009
Attorneys Richard Wuestling IV and Matthew Rossiter will be facing off in a runoff election for position on the 21st Judicial Commission. The pair received the highest percentages of the votes cast, but for a candidate to be elected, they must receive greater than 50 percent of the vote, said St. Louis County Circuit Clerk Joan [...]
Continue reading...Groves beats Ries for 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission spot
9. November 2009
Steven L. Groves has been elected to the 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission, according to the St. Louis Circuit Clerk’s Office. Groves, of Holland, Groves, Schneller & Stolze, and Jonathan Ries, of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard, were squaring off for the position. A vote total was not immediately available. Groves now is one of two attorneys on the [...]
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