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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Sept. 15 that an alleged jailhouse wedding wasn’t enough to prevent a woman from being called to testify against the man convicted of murdering her boyfriend.

The Missouri Supreme Court said a statutory reference to federal safety regulations doesn’t waive a statutory damage cap for the St. Louis Metro system.

A woman injured in a head-on collision in central Missouri reached a $1.25 million settlement with the at-fault driver’s insurer, according to her lawyer.

The committee that evaluates Missouri’s nonpartisan judges says all 53 judges up for retention in November meet the necessary standards to keep their jobs.

The mother of a pedestrian who was struck and killed while jaywalking on a St. Louis County highway reached a $1.25 million wrongful-death settlement, her attorney said.

The Appellate Judicial Commission is accepting applications ahead of Judge Daniel E. Scott’s anticipated retirement from the Court of Appeals Southern District at the end of 2020.

A U.S. Army widow reached two policy-limit settlements after she was hit by a man whose vehicle hood had popped open, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer.

Missouri lawmakers are, for now, content to let the St. Louis Circuit Attorney exclusively prosecute murder cases in the city of St. Louis.

The Missouri Bar Board of Governors on Sept. 15 elected Lauren Tucker McCubbin as its new vice president while formally naming John R. Gunn as the bar’s 2020-21 president.

In his speech at The Missouri Bar 2020 Annual Meeting on Sept. 16, Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice George W. Draper III jokingly told members of the bar that he has nightmares of endless conference calls where everyone is stuck on mute. But Draper himself had no trouble finding his voice

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western ruled Sept. 8 that a plaintiff needs more time to prove that her settlement with one defendant didn’t also release two others.