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Two cases heard in the Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 6 question the release of a party’s medical records for review in courts.

The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.

On Oct. 8 a St. Louis County jury awarded a couple $10 million in the 60-year-old husband’s medical negligence case against a spine surgeon who operated on him twice.

In a ruling that was decades in the making, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled recently that school districts alleged to have fired an employee for filing a workers’ compensation claim cannot claim the protection of sovereign immunity.

After a three-day marathon of public interviews and private deliberations, the Appellate Judicial Commission has selected two panels of finalists for openings on the Western and Eastern districts of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

A lot of small cases and a lot of small screens added up to a big series of arbitration awards for a Kansas City litigation team — with more on the way.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 12 ordered a suspension of at least six months for well-known criminal defense attorney Dan Viets of Columbia.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Oct. 5 said that the two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice actions doesn’t apply to a lawsuit against a company that provides at-home health services.

Eviction moratoriums never completely stopped eviction proceedings. In the case of a St. Louis tenant who couldn’t pay rent since February, a landlord’s attorney delayed proceedings until the tenant was able to settle out of court — seven months later.

Dee Wampler, one of the most prominent criminal defense lawyers in southwestern Missouri, died Oct. 8 in the midst of doing what he loved — preparing for a criminal case. He was 81. Wampler had stayed overnight in St. Louis ...

A state law that uniquely restricts cities in St. Louis County from raising revenue through traffic citations is still on the books — and the court ruling that struck down that law is not. Now the Missouri Supreme Court has to decide if that means the law itself can make a comeback.