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Under new policy, guardians ad litem must also be attorneys
Under the new standards, guardians ad litem must possess a law license. The standards also cut the initial training requirement for GALs from 12 to eight hours, and reduced their continuing legal education requirements from six hours to three.
Fatal fireworks accident leads to $2.7M judgment
A New Madrid County judge awarded nearly $2.7 million to the wife and the mother of a New Madrid employee killed in a fireworks accident.
UPDATE: Texas County prosecutor hit with $1 million verdict for ‘sex ring’ accusations
A Webster County jury has levied a $1 million verdict against Texas County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Anderson for an allegation-laden lawsuit he filed then dropped against a local court clerk.
Senate approves toned-down Facebook law for teachers
Wednesday during a special session in Jefferson City, the Missouri Senate unanimously approved a substantial change to a controversial law governing online contact between teachers and students.
UPDATE: Federal court seeks volunteer lawyers for civil cases
A new pro bono program by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri will supply volunteer lawyers to unrepresented litigants in federal civil cases headed to mediation.
Ranch settles lawsuit by farmhand’s widow
The widow of a farmhand crushed by a falling hay bale has settled with the ranch owners for $750,000.
Defense wins trial over construction site injury
A Greene County jury decided no one bore the fault for a 2005 construction accident that left a foreman with a crushed left foot.
Judge approves former inmates’ class action over cash bonds
A group of former inmates can proceed with a class action against Lincoln County over the county’s practice of withholding portions of cash bonds to pay incarceration costs, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Class action aims to recoup cash bonds
Staff at the Lincoln County Justice Center in Troy will soon be scouring the facility looking for hand-written ledgers more than a decade old. At the behest of a federal lawsuit, they’ll be looking for records detailing payments the county plucked from cash bonds and applied to criminal defendants’ incarceration costs. In the federal suit, a potential class of criminal defendants alleges[...]
Teachers pursue legal, legislative remedies to counter social media law
Julie Gerding’s freshman honors English students will spend part of September parsing the murderous mystery of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” But Gerding, a teacher at Parkway West High School in Ballwin, said she’s not sure if her students can log on to an online discussion forum to trade analyses of Poe’s vengeful protagonist.
Judge stays Facebook law, says measure chills teachers’ speech
Missouri teachers can Facebook without worry. A Cole County judge has put off until February 2012 the effective date of a law that prohibited private online communication between teachers and students.
Judge stays Facebook law, says measure chills teachers’ speech
Missouri teachers can Facebook without worry. A Cole County judge has put off until February 2012 the effective date of a law that prohibited private online communication between teachers and students.
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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