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The Missouri Supreme Court vacated and remanded three cases on Jan. 11 where each criminal defendant, including two juveniles tried as adults, objected to the use of two-way video in their hearings.

A Missouri Senate committee is weighing a bill that would reduce Missouri’s statute of limitations for personal injury suits to two years from the date of injury.

The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled that the state of Missouri is not responsible for most of its share of a $13.825 million settlement reached in 2018 with family of a man freed after 30 years of wrongful incarceration.

 Stephen R. Wigginton, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, had his Missouri bar license suspended Dec. 21 due to two misdemeanor convictions in Madison County, Illinois.

On Jan. 5, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resurrected a husband’s claim that his late wife’s employer failed to pay premiums that would have entitled him to a far larger life insurance payment.

Each year, Missouri Lawyers Media scours its Verdicts & Settlements database to recognize the state-licensed attorneys who achieved the largest verdicts, settlements, judgments and defense wins of the past 12 months.

On Dec. 28 the Court of Appeals Western District ended a 40-year game of inmate hot potato between Missouri and California, ruling in favor of the inmate’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 

The Missouri Supreme Court has left decision-making on COVID-19 safety up to individual presiding judges. Jackson County and St. Louis courts are canceling in-person jury trials scheduled in the upcoming weeks due to rising COVID-19 numbers.

As usual, there are several proposed changes to Missouri’s tort system on the table, but it’s not clear if other priorities will overshadow those bills.

 The Missouri Supreme Court made permanent a defendant’s writ of prohibition to prevent the continued release of his medical records. But the court withheld judgment for a similar oral argument heard the same day.

The Court of Appeals Western District has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to decide if a man’s unproven bad acts should have been used to convict him of molesting his daughter.