Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

For the first time, a Missouri appeals court has ruled in a case involving a 1993 state law designed to protect competition in the retail motor fuel market, affirming a $5.6 million judgment against a St. Louis gas station.

A Missouri law that sets out how to recover damages against a deceased person does not enable defendants ad litem to raise arguments about insurance coverage and recovery, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has ruled.

A former city council candidate who alleged the City of Wildwood violated his First Amendment right to campaign on public property has agreed to settle his suit against the city and its officials for $295,000.

A Kansas woman has wrapped up two suits stemming from motor vehicle crashes that occurred while she was working for a taxi company, according to her attorney, Nicholas Hinrichs of the Hinrichs Law Firm in Kansas City.

A federal jury awarded a Missouri man more than $405,000 in damages for injuries he sustained in a slip-and-fall incident at an Independence QuikTrip in 2019, but jurors also found him mostly at fault — significantly reducing his recovery.

After shelving its plan for nearly a year, the St. Louis County Circuit Court is moving forward to assign private attorneys who live and work in the county to defend indigent clients in low-level felony cases.

A sustained downward trend in COVID-19 cases is buoying hopes that Missouri courts will be able to return to jury trials this spring, despite uncertainty surrounding the availability of COVID-19 vaccines.

The City of St. Louis has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by a Black police officer who alleged he was assaulted by white officers while working undercover at a protest in 2017.

A team of Polsinelli attorneys who help clients obtain patents for their inventions has created an innovation of its own: proprietary software that uses artificial intelligence to help lawyers draft patent applications.

A satellite location designed to help citizens in North St. Louis County access remote court proceedings opened Feb. 8 after a three-month delay caused by an increase of new COVID-19 cases in November.

The Court of Appeals Western District has reinstated a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer’s suit against his auto insurance company in which he sought uninsured motorist coverage for injuries he sustained while working at a DUI checkpoint.