Whether Missouri lawmakers can use an appropriations bill to strip Planned Parenthood of funding appears to hinge on whether doing so effectively rewrote the state’s Medicaid payment scheme. The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Dec. 10 on language in the ...
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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 3 that federal age discrimination laws don’t prevent Armstrong Teasdale from forcing an equity partner to retire at age 70. The ruling brings to an apparent close part of a long-running ...
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It had become almost routine for juries in St. Louis to issue massive verdicts on behalf of groups of plaintiffs from across the country who picked Missouri as the place to fight their corporate adversaries. But after a Missouri Supreme ...
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Read More »A young girl injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash reached two settlements totaling $1 million with the ATV’s driver and owners. Jim Avery of Schultz & Myers in St. Louis, an attorney for the 10-year-old girl, said the plaintiff suffered ...
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A federal judge in Kansas City awarded $22.75 million in damages to a Missouri state court judge and a professional golfer who were defrauded by a longtime acquaintance. In her Nov. 22 judgment, Chief U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips found ...
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Nearly four years after it was filed, a challenge to a sales tax election in the city of Columbia is about to begin. The Court of Appeals Western District ruled Nov. 26 that a Boone County circuit judge has authority ...
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Read More »A woman whose hip was fractured in a motor-vehicle accident settled her claims for $250,000, according to her attorney. Richard J. Zalasky of Brown & Crouppen said that on May 30, 2018, Evelyn Ware, of south St. Louis County, was ...
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The Missouri Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on whether abortion is an appropriate subject for lawmakers to address in an appropriations bill. The arguments, set for the morning of Dec. 10, stem from state lawmakers’ decision in 2018 ...
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The Missouri Supreme Court split 4-3 on whether a quadriplegic man was bound by an arbitration agreement that the person to whom he gave power of attorney had signed when admitting him to a nursing home. In its Nov. 19 ...
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Read More »Attorneys with Graves Garrett in Kansas City negotiated a $2.75 million settlement for a Nebraska high school student who was molested by her high school golf coach. The lawsuit alleged that the plaintiff, identified in the suit as Jane Doe, ...
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The full Court of Appeals Southern District split on whether a Jasper County judge should have terminated a woman’s parental rights to her autistic daughter and allowed the girl’s stepmother to adopt her. Four judges held that the weight of ...
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