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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on July 20 that a district court properly excluded a key expert witness for a plaintiff who alleges he was injured by a saw.

The long drought of jury verdicts in civil cases is coming to an end.

Husch Blackwell has announced that it is acquiring its first offices in the New England region.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has given a temporary reprieve to a veteran St. Louis County lawyer accused of cursing at a judge during a phone conference.

The Missouri Supreme Court on July 22 upheld Missouri voters’ decision to expand the state’s Medicaid system, even as they also affirmed lawmakers’ right to put as much or as little money into the system as they want.

Medical malpractice damage caps are here to stay, following a ruling from the Missouri Supreme Court on July 22.

A Boone County jury awarded $25,000 to a young girl who suffered facial injuries in an automobile accident.

Missouri’s appellate courts have spent the first part of 2021 emerging from pandemic restrictions, welcoming Judge Robin Ransom to the Missouri Supreme Court and issuing significant rulings in areas ranging from immunity for police to procedural rights of insurers.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on July 6 declined once again to entertain a challenge to a longstanding redundancy in Missouri’s gun laws.

The Missouri Supreme Court granted postconviction relief to a Greene County criminal defendant on June 29, holding that a judge had misunderstood his claim that his lawyer gave him bad advice.

A lawsuit involving a radioactive landfill near St. Louis will remain in federal court, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled July 8.