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A fight regarding Missouri’s venue and joinder rules could be finished following a ruling from the Missouri Supreme Court. The court ruled Feb. 13 that a St. Louis County man cannot join other plaintiffs in neighboring St. Louis Circuit Court ...

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When is an order actually a judgment? That’s the riddle that an appellate court — with the support of Humpty Dumpty — has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to solve.

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A family of four injured in a vehicle collision reached an out-of-court settlement of $1.5 million with the insurer for the at-fault driver, who died in the collision. According to Mark Cantor of Cantor Injury Law in St. Louis, the ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that challenge the ability of local courts to impose the room and board bills that criminal defendants often receive after their jail stays. Such “board bills” are allowed by law.

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Members of the Missouri Supreme Court questioned whether a Kansas state agency can be sued in Missouri for its alleged failure to prevent the fatal abuse of a 7-year-old boy. The court heard arguments on Feb. 5 in a wrongful-death ...

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Although our annual Verdicts & Settlements rankings are restricted to cases resolved in Missouri courts, our database contains many significant cases that Missouri attorneys won in other states. Here are some of the cases we highlighted from outside the state: ...

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In 2018, a St. Louis jury delivered one of the largest verdicts in state history. In 2019, the fight is underway to keep it. The $4.69 billion verdict, rendered on July 12, leads Missouri Lawyers Media’s annual Top Verdicts & ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether the #MeToo movement is grounds to extend the statute of limitations for a woman’s claim of sexual harassment on the job.

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The Court of Appeals Western District has thrown out a claim by longtime activist Clay Chastain that Kansas City officials had harassed him by subjecting him to extra security when he entered City Hall.

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The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to reconsider whether unpaid activists who seek to influence legislation in Missouri must register as lobbyists.

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A dispute involving the departure of the Rams from St. Louis could be headed to arbitration after all. The Missouri Supreme Court on Jan. 29 ordered the Court of Appeals Eastern District to reconsider two rulings last year that allowed disputes to remain in circuit court despite claims from the defendants that they should be arbitrated.

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