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Josh Becker has joined Dollar, Burns & Becker in its truck crash, bad faith and catastrophic injury practice groups. Becker previously worked at Sanders Warren Russell & Scheer in Overland Park, Kan. He also clerked for U.S. District Judge Brian ...

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Where respondent landowners who prevailed in a dispute to quiet title to real property sought attorneys’ fees and the trial court’s judgment did not address the issue, the unresolved claim does not arrest the finality of the judgment in this ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Attorney's fees Quiet Title

Where appellant challenged the denial of injunctive relief in his breach of contract case, even if injunctive relief was a viable remedy, the expiration of the relevant contract and the closing of the appellant’s business rendered the court unable to ...

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Where appellant challenged summary judgment in favor of respondent on its action to quiet title and on the appellant’s counterclaim for judicial foreclosure in a dispute arising from the parties’ competing interests in real property previously owned by a husband ...

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Where defendant challenged the effectiveness of counsel, arguing that his attorney failed to make an offer of proof regarding the victim’s alleged gang membership and drug dealing, the motion court did not err in denying post-conviction relief because the evidence ...

Tagged with: Alternate Perpetrator Evidence effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief

Where defendant challenged the dismissal of his Rule 24.035 motion, arguing that the motion court improperly invoked the escape rule without ruling on the merits of his claims and thus violating his constitutional rights, judicial authority has established that application ...

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Plaintiff’s residential subdivision was subject to indentures that included a restriction that “only one residence shall be erected on each lot” and that other lot owners were entitled to a right of first refusal on a proposed sale. Defendant acquired ...

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Police shot and killed a man, whose grandmother filed a wrongful-death suit, claiming to be his next of kin. The man was survived by his parents, both of whom were incarcerated at the time. The man’s father wrote to the ...

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Where plaintiffs in a medical-negligence case challenged the judgment against them arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to give their attorney extra time so that he could ask the insurance question after he forgot to ask it during ...

Tagged with: Extra Time Insurance Question voir dire

(1)Where a juvenile challenged a circuit court finding that he committed an act that if committed by an adult would have constituted the felony of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, and the juvenile turned 18 and was ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Juvenile Proceeding mootness

While working in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office, respondents helped a police detective with whom they were acquainted to cover up the detective’s assault of a suspect he believed had broken into his daughter’s vehicle. Respondents failed to report ...

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