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Supreme Court Chief Justice George W. Draper III on Jan. 22 formally unveiled the judiciary’s plans to move two rural counties into new judicial circuits. In his State of the Judiciary speech before a joint session of the Missouri House ...

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For 40 years, Kansas City tax attorney Bill Shapiro was best known in the community as the host of “Cyprus Avenue,” a weekly radio program at station KCUR that was devoted to Shapiro’s love of music.  KCUR announced that Shapiro ...

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A St. Louis County circuit judge ruled Jan. 10 that Armstrong Teasdale doesn’t owe severance to a former equity partner who continued to practice law following his retirement. The ruling could mark the end of the last piece of a ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing who, if anyone, must pay a $2.5 million award to a man arrested years ago by two discredited former St. Louis police officers. Michael Holmes was arrested in 2003 on drug charges, convicted and ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a law that requires public-sector unions to agree not to picket, even as a wider challenge to union-aimed legislation proceeds in a lower court. The high court heard arguments on Jan. ...

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More than 28 years after he was committed to a state mental health facility, a Missouri man finally will learn what happens next in his case. In a 4-3 ruling, the Missouri Supreme Court on Jan. 14 ordered an evaluation ...

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A Jefferson County woman who struck the rear of a tractor-trailer truck reached a $1 million settlement with the truck’s insurer, according to her attorneys. Michael J. Dalton Jr. and Michael Shelton of O’Leary, Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton & Quillin ...

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An Illinois woman settled injury claims against a driver who struck her vehicle from behind for $100,000, according to her attorney. Brandon L. Jackson of Brown & Crouppen said the plaintiff was stopped on the ramp from westbound Interstate 255 ...

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Gov. Mike Parson devoted just a single line in his State of the State address to changing Missouri’s tort laws. “We must have a real discussion about tort reform in the legislature,” he said in his Jan. 15 speech to ...

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The Appellate Judicial Commission has selected Michael E. Gardner, Jeffery T. McPherson and Michael W. Noble as nominees for a vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Jan. 14 ruled that the affidavit that some voters must sign under the state’s photo identification law is “misleading and contradictory.” The affidavit was required for voters who appeared at the poll with a non-photo ...

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