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Kansas City residents voted June 18 to elevate attorney and city councilmember  Quinton Lucas to the mayor’s office. Lucas, 34, won 58.5 percent of the vote, with 39,216 votes cast in his favor, according to unofficial results from Jackson, Clay ...

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Boone County and its insurer will ask a federal judge next week to undo a $2 million settlement with a man they say defrauded the court and his lawyers by feigning paralysis. Derrick Houston, of Columbia, settled his excessive-force suit against ...

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Two Riverside attorneys admitted to violating ethics rules in the midst of a contentious child-custody dispute and apologized for conduct that previously led a Clay County judge to order $100,000 in sanctions against them. At their joint disciplinary-panel hearing June ...

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A Missouri appeals court for the first time has ruled that delivering a baby unattended by medical professionals is not in itself enough to support a criminal prosecution. The ruling came in the court’s decision to reverse a Miller County ...

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A Winfield, Kansas man has agreed to settle his claims against a Missouri trucking company for $2 million after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of his vehicle, according to his attorney. The crash occurred Oct. 27, 2018 in Gardner, Kansas, ...

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A new Jackson County Family Court pilot program aims to make it easier for attorneys to serve as pro bono counsel for parents in child-abuse and neglect cases. Under the pilot program, attorneys can volunteer to regularly represent parents who ...

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Jackson County prosecutors have revealed more evidence in their case against a Raytown man accused of fatally shooting a Kansas City attorney, including allegations of “incriminating” searches of firearms and how to kill using them. In a June 10 filing ...

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Attorney Jessica Ross went to the Jackson County Detention Center on June 12, intending to join a jailed client for a videoconference hearing scheduled before a judge in Independence. Instead, she was turned away. The reason?  Ross said she lost ...

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A man who was taken into police custody at gunpoint while driving a rental vehicle settled with Hertz for $25,000 after alleging the company wrongly reported the car had been stolen, according to his attorney. Zachary D. Poole of ZDP ...

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A Missouri woman whose daughter died in a vehicle crash is not entitled to underinsured motorist cover-age following the crash, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled June 4. The court unanimously held that Chelsea Seaton, the daughter of plaintiff Leslie Seaton, ...

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