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Where a defendant challenged his conviction in a drug-conspiracy case, the evidence was sufficient to support the three counts, and the district court did not err in calculating the offense level based on a determination that the conspiracy involved 5 ...

Tagged with: Drug Conspiracy sentencing Sufficiency Of Evidence

Defendant appealed from his sentence following his conviction for distribution of heroin, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting. Defendant challenged the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury verdict and argued that the district court erred in not granting him a ...

Tagged with: Denial of Downward Variance Distribution of Heroin Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence to support his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, arguing that the evidence did not show that he knowingly possessed a gun that was found on a plane ...

Tagged with: Airplane Search Possession Sufficiency of Evidence of Conspiracy

The state of Missouri appealed from the judgment of the district court, which ruled that provisions of the state’s liquor control law that prohibited alcohol producers and distributors from retail advertising were unconstitutional as violative of their First Amendment free-speech ...

Tagged with: free speech Liquor Control Laws Prohibition on Retail Advertising

Where a plaintiff brought an action against commissioners of the Department of Corrections claiming constitutional violations in relation to his sentence and arguing that the medical examiner was negligent for changing the classification of a 1979 death from undetermined to ...

Tagged with: Heck v. Humphrey Statute Of Limitations

Plaintiff, an inmate in a Missouri prison, appealed the district court’s discovery ruling and adverse grant of summary judgment in plaintiff’s §1983 action. Where there was no abuse of discretion, the district court properly denied plaintiff’s motions to compel and ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 Adverse Summary Judgment Prison Inmate

Where plaintiffs, who were Arkansas residents, sued a California resident and his California-based business in Arkansas in a dispute involving an investment agreement, the dismissal of the case for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed because the defendants had sufficient ...

Tagged with: Personal Jurisdiction Sufficient Contacts

Where an appellant in a diversity action challenged the denial of her motions to recuse, the dismissal is affirmed because the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motions. Judgment is affirmed. Caranchini v. Peck (MLW No. ...

Tagged with: Failure To State Claim Motion to Recuse

Plaintiffs appealed from the dismissal of their action against attorney defendants for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Where plaintiffs failed to identify a federal question and where there was a lack of complete diversity between the parties, the district court properly ...

Tagged with: diversity jurisdiction Federal Question malpractice

Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Mariann Morgan, of Carthage, to the Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors. Morgan is an attorney with Checkett & Pauly in Carthage. She serves on the McCune Brooks Healthcare Foundation and the Carthage Community ...

Tagged with: Checkett & Pauly Mariann Morgan Missouri Southern State University

The estate planning law firm TuckerAllen has spun off from Lewis Rice and merged with elder care law firm Cordell Planning Partners, effective Jan. 1. The combined firm will operate under the TuckerAllen brand. Lewis Rice, which formed TuckerAllen as ...

Tagged with: Cordell Planning Partners Joseph E. Cordell Lewis Rice TuckerAllen