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Recent Articles from Allison Retka

Local September 27, 2011

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.

Local September 26, 2011

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.

Local September 21, 2011

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.

Local September 15, 2011

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.

Local September 14, 2011

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.

Local September 12, 2011

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.

Local September 5, 2011

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.

Local September 1, 2011

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.

Local August 30, 2011

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[...]

Local August 29, 2011

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.

Local August 26, 2011

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.

Local August 26, 2011

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.

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