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A Jackson County jury awarded slightly more than $1 million in damages to a Kansas City woman who alleged she suffered a botched tubal ligation. Kathleen M. Hagen of Watson & Dameron, who represented plaintiff Maria Ordinola Velasquez, said she ...

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Plaintiffs suing the companies that operated and manufactured the duck boat that capsized during a July 2018 storm on Table Rock Lake near Branson, killing 17 people, have secured a key victory in their litigation. On Nov. 27, U.S. District ...

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A Missouri appeals court has affirmed a $3.5 million verdict for a railroad conductor who was injured in a 2013 train collision in Kansas. On Nov. 26, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled in ...

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A St. Louis circuit judge properly granted a new trial in a gender-discrimination case that previously resulted in a $7.3 million verdict against United Parcel Service, a Missouri appeals court has ruled. On Nov. 26, a three-judge panel of the ...

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A Missouri appeals court has ruled that trial de novo — not direct appeal — is the appropriate procedural remedy in cases heard by associate circuit judges, clearing up confusion resulting from multiple revisions of state law in recent years. ...

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Missouri attorneys who fail to comply with court orders in their personal lives — including court-ordered child-support obligations — may find themselves in trouble with the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel following an update to the Rules of Professional Conduct. ...

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A Jackson County judge has awarded $60 of the more than $13,000 in costs the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph sought after prevailing in a case brought against it under an obscure state law. On Nov. 21, Judge Charles ...

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A Jackson County judge appeared to be on the verge of approving a partial settlement in a wrongful-death case brought by the family of a slain Kansas City lawyer, until a last-minute dispute on Nov. 21 derailed the proceedings. According ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a Crane attorney in a case in which the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel had sought only a one-year suspension. The court entered its order disbarring John Dale Wiley on Nov. 19. In March, ...

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A federal judge’s recent order has breathed new life into a dispute between a Missouri liquor wholesaler, its rival distributor and Jägermeister. In a Nov. 15 order, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey denied Jägermeister’s motion to dismiss nine counts ...

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A Buchanan County jury has found a St. Joseph emergency-room doctor and hospital not liable for a man’s claims that the doctor failed to diagnose symptoms that led to his disabling brain aneurysm in 2011. The plaintiff, Roy Dalbey, 44, ...

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