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Where a university staff scientist, who suffered from herniated discs, sued the university and a supervisor for retaliation after her termination, on an issue of first impression the court finds that an accommodation request under the Missouri Human Rights Act ...

Tagged with: Accommodation Request MHRA Retaliation

Defendant appealed the order overruling its motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration of plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit. Plaintiff claimed that she had vision issues and had her store’s assistant manager complete electronic documents for her upon plaintiff’s hiring, ...

Tagged with: Arbitration disability discrimination

The state adopted a voter ID law allowing voters to identify themselves by, among other options, executing a specified affidavit and presenting certain forms of non-photographic identification. The state appealed from the judgment declaring the affidavit requirement of the voter ...

Tagged with: Affidavit Requirement Voter ID Law

Where an officer saw a driver cross the fog line and drive on the shoulder, the officer had probable cause to stop the vehicle, and the stop did not constitute an unreasonable seizure, so the trial court did not err ...

Tagged with: Probable Cause traffic stop

  Where a trial court accepted a defendant’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity while also finding him incompetent to proceed, the defendant’s habeas claim was not procedurally barred, and the court exceeded its authority and violated the ...

Tagged with: Competence due process NGRI Plea

Several individuals filed seeking declaratory judgment that several state parking laws and a city ordinance were unconstitutional. The city filed a cross-claim against the state seeking to declare the state parking laws unconstitutional or invalid. The trial court granted summary ...

Tagged with: constitutionality State Parking Statutes

Petitioner, a citizen of The Gambia, petitioned for review of the denial of her motion to reconsider, reopen and terminate her removal proceedings Where petitioner’s motion was untimely and numerically barred and foreclosed by legal precedent, the Board of Immigration ...

Tagged with: Reconsideration Removal Proceedings timeliness

Petitioner, a citizen of Mexico, petitioned for review of an order that denied his motion to remand based on new evidence that allegedly established petitioner’s eligibility for cancellation of removal, and rejected petitioner’s argument that the agency lacked jurisdiction to ...

Tagged with: Evidence of Eligibility for Cancellation of Removal jurisdiction Removal

Plaintiff appealed the district court’s denial of plaintiff’s motion to compel arbitration of its grievances against defendant. Defendant previously had announced that it would close a manufacturing plant; after discussions, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding extending their collective ...

Tagged with: collective bargaining agreement Early Retirement Benefits Motion to Compel Arbitration

Defendant appealed from the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of heroin seized from a rental car defendant had been driving that was stopped by police during a traffic stop. Where defendant had permission from his wife ...

Tagged with: Motion To Suppress Possession of Heroin Probable Cause

Defendant pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. The district court imposed a sentence at the bottom of the guidelines range but ordered it to run consecutive to an earlier-imposed sentence following the revocation of defendant’s supervised release. On appeal, defendant ...

Tagged with: Consecutive Sentence Distribution of Child Pornography Double Jeopardy