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Gov. Mike Parson appointed Amanda Bundren McNelley as an associate circuit judge for the St. Louis County Circuit Court. McNelley, of Kirkwood, is a family law team leader and counsel at Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard.  She earned her law ...

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The 16th Circuit Judicial Commission has selected three nominees for an associate circuit judge vacancy in Jackson County Circuit Court. Arimeta R. DuPree, R. Travis Willingham and Jerri J. Zhang are finalists to succeed Judge Cory L. Atkins following his ...

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On appeal from the trial court’s grant of the petition for adoption filed by the guardians of K.A.F., which effectively terminated father’s parental rights, father argued that his counsel failed to adequately communicate with him prior to trial, failed to ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion to retax costs associated with his criminal trial, arguing that the trial court erred in ordering that he owed a $774 balance, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the county ...

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Petitioner, individually and on behalf of her minor son, petitioned for review of an order that dismissed her appeal from an immigration judge that denied her asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Where petitioner failed ...

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  Where a university employee who worked as a language-center coordinator and instructor sued the university president for employment discrimination after her termination, the plaintiff was an at-will employee at the time of her termination, and the passage of a ...

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Where appellant challenged the adverse grant of summary judgment in his action claiming employment discrimination and retaliation, the district court did not err, and the motion to supplement the record is denied, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. ...

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Where a law-firm partner brought an action challenging a law firm’s mandatory retirement policy, the judgment for the law firm is affirmed because as an equity partner with various rights and powers, the plaintiff was not an employee as defined ...

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Where the district court granted a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence found inside a car during a traffic stop based on its finding that the defendant was detained without reasonable suspicion before an unlawful pretextual inventory search, the defendant was ...

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Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty in a drug-conspiracy case, argued that the application at sentencing of the career-offender provision violated double jeopardy, the argument has been rejected by prior U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and the judgment is affirmed because ...

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  Where a defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of his sentence, the defendant pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement that contained an appeal waiver, and the appeal waiver was valid, applicable and enforceable, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment ...

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