A panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 8 that a dispute between Sansone Law, a Clayton-based firm, and its former client, collection agency J&M Securities, never ended in a true settlement and thus must return ...
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Read More »Jurors in St. Louis on Aug. 22 found that Ford Motor Company was liable for the lung illness suffered by a South County man who worked as a mechanic at automobile dealerships from the 1960s to the 1980s. According to ...
Tagged with: Asbestos Exposure Ford Motor Company mesothelioma The Gori Law Firm
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The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 1 made the unusual decision to sustain a state inmate’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and to appoint a special master to oversee the proceedings, marking the latest twist in a mysterious, ...
Tagged with: Donald "Doc" Nash habeas corpus Judy Spencer Missouri Supreme Court Richard Zerr Special Master
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The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 2 grappled with an ambiguous part of the Sunshine Law pertaining to the public release of absentee ballot materials. The high court heard oral arguments in the case involving Bruce Franks Jr., the outgoing ...
Tagged with: Board of Election Commissioners Bruce Franks Jr. city of St. Louis Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Missouri Supreme Court Sunshine Law
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A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 19 that St. Louis-based Ronnoco Coffee, which in 2015 bought an unrelated competitor’s assets at a bank foreclosure sale, had no successor liability for inventory purchases the competitor ...
Tagged with: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Dowd Bennett Ronnoco Coffee Westfeldt Brothers Inc.
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It’s easy to breeze past the Judicial Learning Center and not notice it. The entrance is just a doorway on the first floor of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, in the hall between the elevators ...
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A St. Louis County judge on Sept. 23 entered a judgment of $557,292 against attorney Chelsea Merta and her firm, Lotus Law, bringing resolution to a civil dispute with her former employer, the Stange Law Firm. St. Louis County Judge ...
Tagged with: Chelsea Merta Circuit Judge Kristine Kerr Lotus Law Stange Law Firm
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For years, Missouri has handed over data on state employees to a public-sector workers’ union. Now two conservative groups are suing a state agency in Cole County Circuit Court to obtain that data. On Aug. 28, the nonprofit Show-Me Institute ...
Tagged with: American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees Cole County Circuit Court public-sector union Show-Me Institute state workers Sunshine Law United for Missouri
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In a three-way split, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 5 allowed a civil-rights action to proceed against a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer accused of performing an unreasonable body-cavity search on a ...
Tagged with: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Angela Hawkins body-cavity search Judge Ralph R. Erickson Kayla Robinson Kelli Swinton unreasonable search claim
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The Village of Bel-Ridge in north St. Louis County has won summary judgment in a dispute over its enforcement of traffic laws. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Nancy W. McLaughlin on Aug. 27 found in favor of Bel-Ridge, a community ...
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What should a Missouri prosecutor do upon learning her own office put an innocent man in prison? St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner believes Lamar Johnson is such a man. A jury convicted him of murder in 1995, but ...
Tagged with: Conviction Integrity Unit Elizabeth B. Hogan Jean Peters-Baker Kimberly Gardner Lamar Johnson Wesley Bell
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