
A federal judge says a Missouri state law that bars protests at funerals is unconstitutional. In a 19-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. said the law violates the Westboro Baptist Church’s right to free speech. State lawmakers passed the law in 2006 after the Topeka, Kan.,-based church protested at a military funeral in St. [...]
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23. July 2010
A federal court has approved a $1.1 million judgment against a former Lee’s Summit in-home day care provider whose foster son allegedly molested two children in her care. U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner on Monday awarded the money to a Wichita, Kan., woman and her two sons. The woman filed her lawsuit against André Walker in [...]
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14. June 2010
A case of purported mistaken identity resulting in an arrest at a child's funeral prompted a civil rights lawsuit now in federal court in Kansas City.
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3. June 2010
A soccer camp called "Victory Through Jesus" does not have a constitutional right to distribute its flyers more often at Lee's Summit schools, a federal judge ruled today.
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3. March 2010
The latest federal lawsuit challenging Missouri’s use of lethal injection drugs is moving forward. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey, of the Western District of Missouri, denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendants George A. Lombardi, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections; Steve Larkins, warden of Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center [...]
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5. February 2010
A Missouri law firm has filed a class action lawsuit over the recent Toyota recalls. Filed in federal court in Kansas City on Thursday, the suit alleges Toyota Motor Corporation violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The company recalled more than 5 million of its vehicles spanning seven models in the past two weeks because of sticking accelerators. Chad [...]
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3. February 2010
A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty today in Kansas City federal court for his connection to a mortgage fraud conspiracy that totaled more than $3.6 million. The loans spanned 34 properties in Midtown and inner city areas of Kansas City, announced Beth Phillips, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Parker Marshall is prosecuting the [...]
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26. January 2010
CORRECTION: Lear Werts is located in Columbia, not St. Louis. This article has been altered to reflect this change. In a class action lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Kansas City, two tax professionals allege that Kansas City-based H&R Block forced them to take training courses but didn’t pay them for their time. Barbara Petroski and [...]
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14. January 2010
The Independence-based Community of Christ today won a permanent injunction against an unauthorized spin-off sect that was using the church’s former name. The Community of Christ said the Devon Park Restoration Branch of Jesus Christ’s Church was violating Community of Christ’s right to the “Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” name. The Community [...]
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13. January 2010
A federal judge will allow a lawsuit by AT&T call center workers who say they worked unpaid hours to proceed as a class action. U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith granted a conditional certification in an order yesterday. The certification allows the plaintiffs to begin discovery in a case that could include thousands of workers in call [...]
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16. August 2010
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