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Where the district court dismissed an action against defendants including a school district and its officials for premises liability and negligent supervision brought by plaintiff on behalf of an intellectually disabled minor student who was raped by another student during ...

Tagged with: Administrative Failure To Exhaust IDEA Student Rape

Where the husband of a woman who died when she fell from a power plant platform while working for Union Electric brought a wrongful death action, corporate ties between Ameren Services Corporation and Union Electric did not protect Ameren from ...

Tagged with: Negligence Power Plant Accident Third Party Duty wrongful death

Where a father tested positive for marijuana on numerous occasions but did not meet the updated definition of cannabis abuse outlined in DSM-V, and he acted appropriately with his child, the interactions with the child were positive, the father and ...

Tagged with: Chemical Dependency Domestic Relations marijuana Parental Rights

Where a trial court pre-determined a fine if a father did not take his children to their therapy sessions or if he had the children during the mother’s custody time, the judgment is reversed in part because the court ordered ...

Tagged with: Assessment Of Fine contempt Domestic Relations

Where a defendant timely filed a motion for post-conviction relief and then an assistant public defender entered her appearance and asked for an extension of time to file an amended motion that was never expressly ruled upon by the motion ...

Tagged with: Abandonment Inquiry Criminal Law Post-Conviction Relief timeliness

Where a defendant was ordered released from custody after the habeas court found that his commitment was based on defective pleas of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in two separate cases, the record with respect to ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Defective Pleas Habeas Relief

Even though the trial court did not sign a guilty plea to a 1995 misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge, there was no manifest injustice that would warrant the withdrawal of the guilty plea 20 years later because the man who ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Guilty Plea Manifest Injustice

Where a contractor agreed to provide a client management computer application to a firm in which the design phase would take 10 to 12 hours and then several months to implement the database, the contractor’s 10-month delay in providing the ...

Tagged with: Breach contracts Performance

Where the Condominium Declaration and Bylaws stated that it was the responsibility of condominium owners to unclog the drains, pipes and sewer lines within the unit, a condominium owner’s failure to fix a massive water leak was a breach of ...

Tagged with: Breach Condominium contracts Declaration

Even though there was evidence that the murder victim cursed at the defendant, that the victim stepped toward the defendant several times causing him to step back, the victim was physically larger than the defendant, the victim threatened to have ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Jury Instruction Self Defense

Even though a party to a contract with an arbitration clause acted inconsistently with the clause when it filed a lawsuit, the party was not prevented from then seeking to compel arbitration of the claims because only three months had ...