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If it wasn’t for Derrick Thomas, there’s a good chance Kansas City attorney Kevin Regan never would have picked up the bagpipes. When the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker died following a car crash in 2000, Regan — a close friend of ...

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A federal judge has given final approval to a class-action settlement in a suit alleging Walmart and a manufacturer of tractor hydraulic fluid deceptively sold and made a product that damaged Missourians’ farm, logging and construction equipment. On March 3, ...

Tagged with: Class Action Settlement Missouri Merchandising Practices Act Walmart Warren Distribution Inc.

A Lee’s Summit woman who sued the City of Raytown for violating the Sunshine Law has nearly doubled her recovery after a judge awarded $41,000 in attorneys’ fees to her for prevailing in an appeal brought by the city. In ...

Tagged with: Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Paula Wyrick Raytown Sunshine Law The Gorny Law Firm

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld a judgment of more than $376,000 awarded to a Mercy Hospital St. Louis housekeeper in her disability discrimination suit against the hospital. On March 17, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Mercy Hospital St. Louis Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Tammie McKinney

The Missouri Supreme Court has suspended for at least six months the license of a Blue Springs attorney who had an affair with his client while he was representing her on a child-custody matter. The court suspended Michael Spiegel, a ...

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Trust-account violations led the Missouri Supreme Court to discipline three Missouri attorneys — including disbarring one and suspending another — on March 17. The court ordered disbarment for Kristy Lynn Ridings, a St. Louis attorney. The court found she’d violated ...

Tagged with: Henry V. Griffin Jerry A. Hollon Kristy Lynn Ridings Missouri Supreme Court Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel trust-account violations

A Springfield company accused of conspiring to create a national advertising campaign to sell a knock-off cat toy has lost its appeal to reopen the lawsuit against it so it can seek attorneys’ fees. A three-judge panel of the 8th ...

Tagged with: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Lathrop GPM Opfer Communications Inc. Purr N Play Ripple Rug SnugglyCat trademark infringement U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

The Harrisonville School District has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a student’s claim that a high school aide and coach — who is also the son of the district’s superintendent — engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with ...

Tagged with: discrimination case Harrisonville School District Joseph Dahman Wendt Law Firm

The fact that a Sedalia man was excluded from his parents’ automobile insurance was not sufficient to establish negligent entrustment in a suit brought against them following a 2014 crash in Ohio, a Missouri appeals court has ruled.

Tagged with: excluded driver habitual recklessness Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Negligent Entrustment

George E. Wolf III, whose last day as a Jackson County circuit judge was March 16, has joined Kansas City-based architectural, engineering and planning firm HNTB Corporation. According to court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman, Wolf will serve as general counsel of ...

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For the first time, The Missouri Bar soon will have an African American lawyer as its executive director.

Tagged with: Jackson County Bar Association Mischa Buford Epps Shaun Stallworth Shook Hardy & Bacon The Missouri Bar