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The Missouri Supreme Court has extended its restrictions on most in-person hearings until at least May 15. In an order dated April 17, the court suspended in-person proceedings in all appellate and circuit courts, including all associate, family, juvenile, municipal ...

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Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe assesses the current and future effect on our state   Registration for this event is closed. Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Webinar: 9-9:50 a.m.  $10 for BAMSL members $20 for non-members 1.0 hours of CLE credit Moderators: ...

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Armstrong Teasdale recently added four attorneys to its Missouri offices. Partners Ramona Palmer-Eason and Crystal L. Howard and associate Pamela J. Winter joined the firm’s Kansas City office, and partner Untress Quinn joined in St. Louis. The firm simultaneously added ...

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Kevin E.J. Regan of The Regan Law Firm in Kansas City has been elected to serve on The Missouri Bar Foundation Board of Trustees. Regan also was recently made an honorary life member of the Col. Arthur D. “Bull” Simons ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that he was misled or induced to plead guilty, the challenge was to the voluntariness of his plea and was time-barred. Appeal is dismissed. State ...

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Where a defendant argued that a trial court erred when it refused to sever resisting-arrest and gun charges from child-molestation and statutory rape charges, the sex offense charges provided the basis for the state to bring the other charges and ...

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Where a claimant challenged the denial of permanent total disability benefits, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission erred by requiring the physician who testified about the claimant’s work-related injury to state an opinion on the claimant’s ability to obtain future ...

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Where an insurer challenged a judgment for an insured who sought uninsured motorist benefits after an auto accident, the insured made a submissible case on the insurer’s vexatious refusal to pay, and the trial court did not err in allowing ...

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Where a motion court overruled defendant’s pro se motion for post-conviction relief on the merits, the defendant failed to allege any facts showing that his motion was timely or that the untimely filing fell into a recognized exception, so the ...

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Where a defendant challenged a guilty verdict in a driving-while-intoxicated case, direct and circumstantial evidence supported the reasonable inference that the defendant was intoxicated while driving, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in overruling the defendant’s objection ...

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Where appellants including the highway patrol challenged a judgment granting petitioner’s request to have his name removed from the state’s sex offender registry, the meaning of the upgrade provision for repeat tier I offenders is an issue of first impression, ...

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