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Recent Articles from Allison Retka

MO Lawyers Blog February 5, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog February 4, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 30, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 30, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 25, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 25, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 23, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 23, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 17, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 17, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 16, 2011

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.

MO Lawyers Blog January 16, 2011

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.

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