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The Missouri Supreme Court has reversed a $2.5 million verdict for a former Harris-Stowe State University professor who accused the university of national-origin discrimination and retaliation.

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A Sugar Creek couple has agreed to settle their medical-malpractice suit against The Children’s Mercy Hospital, bringing to a close an unusually contentious case marked by discovery disputes, atypical hostility between counsel and ultimately an attempt to remove the judge.

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Jan. 15 probed whether a state law allowing drivers suspected of driving while under the influence to consult with an attorney prior to chemical testing also extends the right of confidentiality to those calls.

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Eleven attorneys have left St. Louis firm Pitzer Snodgrass to form a new law firm, Gausnell, O’Keefe & Thomas. The three cofounders and principals are Bill Thomas, Don O’Keefe and Seth Gausnell. The firm officially opened Jan. 3 in Peabody ...

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The future of a massive lawsuit alleging that federal policy changes caused recurrent flooding along the Missouri River is murky after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review similar litigation which followed Hurricane Katrina.

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In a Jan. 4 order, U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough approved class certification for seven parolees in their suit against officials from the Missouri Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole and the parole board.

The mere appearance of a conflict of interest was not enough to disqualify members of the Missouri Clean Water Commission from issuing a permit for a large-scale pig farm in Grundy County, an appeals court ruled Jan. 2.

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A $3.7 million judgment for a former employee of pest-control company Orkin, reduced from a $10.1 million jury verdict from 2016, will stand following a Dec. 26 ruling from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. A three-judge panel unanimously ...

A Missouri appeals court has reversed a Sedalia man’s convictions for second-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action after ruling that a judge erroneously refused to remove the sister of an assistant prosecutor from the jury in the man’s case.

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The daughter of an 82-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle driven by her nurse and died of complications following the incident has agreed to settle her wrongful-death suit against the nurse’s company for $400,000. Her attorney, Rachel Stahle ...

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The Marion County Ambulance District has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a man’s lawsuit after an ambulance in which he was riding rolled over in a single-vehicle crash. The plaintiff was an 80-year-old man whose daughters took him ...

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