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A Jackson County judge has recommended that a North Kansas City attorney be found guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced to a month in jail for allegedly continuing to practice after his license was suspended last year. The ruling — ...

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A split Missouri Supreme Court ruling marks a departure from recent cases in which the court has compelled arbitration for litigants. In a 4-3 ruling issued Jan. 14, the court affirmed a lower-court order denying a motion to compel arbitration ...

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A federal judge has awarded a Cape Girardeau couple $5.7 million in damages after finding that the federal government, through the Department of Veterans Affairs, was negligent in failing to timely diagnose a man’s prostate cancer. On Dec. 30, U.S. ...

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A Jackson County judge has amended an earlier judgment which previously awarded a prevailing defendant only $60 of the more than $13,000 in costs the defendant sought after a trial. Judge Charles H. McKenzie on Dec. 20 filed an amended ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed a $1.1 million verdict in a contested-will case from Clay County. On Dec. 31, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District unanimously affirmed the verdict for plaintiffs Randy Netherton, ...

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Weeks before a scheduled trial, a Kansas City couple settled their civil conspiracy and due-process claims against Clay County Collector of Revenue Lydia McAvoy. According to the settlement agreement, which was obtained through a public-records request, the county on Dec. ...

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A federal judge has denied Monsanto’s motion to throw out a southeast Missouri peach farm’s claims that the company sold seeds without a safe corresponding herbicide, forcing other farmers to illegally spray weed-killing chemicals that drifted onto the peach farm. ...

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A woman who received a $1.5 million verdict in 2018 for a T-bone crash near a Taco Bell restaurant in St. Louis must take her case to trial for a second time as a result of a ruling by the ...

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The Missouri State Public Defender Commission has selected Mary Fox, district defender for the city of St. Louis, to be the next director of the Missouri State Public Defender System. H. Riley Bock, a New Madrid attorney who serves as ...

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An appeals court has blocked a circuit judge in southeast Missouri from imposing a medical test to determine whether and to what extent a plaintiff lost his senses of smell and taste after he was injured in a fall. On ...

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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Missouri Supreme Court is poised to hear a case that potentially could open the door for plaintiffs to bring negligence claims against religious entities. On Dec. 31, the Missouri Court ...

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