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Court decision: In Re John Q. Hammons Inc. Shareholder Litigation
Click here to view the Chancery Court of Delaware’s decision in In Re John Q Hammons Inc. Shareholder Litigation.
Public defender report sent to Supreme Court
The special master tasked with examining the Missouri State Public Defender System’s right to refuse cases in overloaded offices has sent his final report to the Missouri Supreme Court.
Supreme Court splinters over flawed adoption
In a set of three opinions that traded barbs over evidence and abandonment, the Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a controversial Jasper County adoption case.
Victorious lawyers reveal their strategies
Norm Siegel is one of a handful of lawyers who secured the largest plaintiff and defense victories in Missouri in 2010, as reported to Missouri Lawyers Weekly.
Court sends adoption case to re-trial
Melinda and Seth Moser watch media interviews in November after arguments before the Missouri Supreme Court on custody of their adopted child, Carlos.
In a 4-3 ruling that runs nearly 100 pages, the majority threw out a Jasper County judge’s order terminating the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman and handing her son, Carlos, to a Carthage couple.
Missouri Supreme Court orders new trial in controversial adoption case
The Missouri Supreme Court in a 4-3 ruling that runs nearly 100 pages threw out a Jasper County judge’s order terminating the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman and handing her son, Carlos, to a Carthage couple.
Doctor fends off malpractice lawsuit
A St. Charles jury has cleared an Ob-Gyn doctor of negligently performing a hysterectomy on a woman that left her with a painful vaginal fistula.
Patent litigators lose 25 percent damages rule
The federal appellate court that hears all appeals in patent cases has chucked an oft-used method for calculating damages in patent infringement cases.
Legal Champion – Don Downing
The rolling cotton fields of southeast Missouri led Don Downing to rice. And rice led Downing to a string of impressive plaintiff victories against one of the largest biotech companies in the world, Bayer CropScience.
Influential lawyer – Dean Dankelson
For many years, in the public debate over Missouri’s public defender caseload issues, one side remained strangely quiet: the prosecutors who stood opposite the defenders in each and every case.
Q&A with Darrell Moore
Darrell Moore started work last week as the chief litigation counsel for newly elected Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich. Moore previously worked for 26 years as a prosecutor in Greene County. For the past 12 years, he was the top prosecuting attorney in Springfield.
Senator’s bill would privatize defender work
In a Republican political climate intent on slashing costs, state Sen. Jim Lembke has set his budget-cutting sights on a judicial target: the Missouri State Public Defender System.
Latest Opinion Digests
- Criminal Law: Child Abuse-Sufficiency Of Evidence-Closing Argument
- Civil Rights: Religious Freedom-RLUIPA-Res Judicata
- Civil Practice: Res Judicata-Stop Work Order
- Immigration: Drug Conviction-Removability-Overbreadth of State Offense
- Civil Practice: Asset Forfeiture-Sanctions
- Civil Rights: Due Process-Failure to State Claim
- Probate : Revocable Trust – Amendment – Reformation
- Employer – Employee : Unpaid Commissions – At-Will Status
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel – Conflict Of Interest
- Appellate Practice : Jurisdiction – Final Judgment
- Domestic Relations : Parenting Plan – Child Support
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Guilty Plea – Sentence Advice
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- Athena Dickson named vice-president of Missouri Bar
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