A city is once again before the Missouri Supreme Court as it seeks to apply a resurrected $8 million punitive damages award to the board of an insurance fund.
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A year after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a law that restricted public-sector unions, the court is considering a separate law that unions say violates their rights without mentioning them by name.
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In this latest edition of THE POWER LIST, a regular feature from Missouri Lawyers Media, we examine the most powerful attorneys in business defense.
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A recent appellate opinion has clarified how an insurance company can intervene in a Section 537.065 agreement, while another issued the same day leaves unanswered questions for another court.
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Members of the Missouri House and Senate weighed in on the end of the legislative session on Wednesday, May 25.
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Eight years ago, the Missouri Supreme Court suggested that if lawmakers didn’t like its take on the state’s lesser-included offenses statute, there was a way to fix it. A bill passed in the final days of the 2022 legislative session would do just that.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to grant a rehearing in a workers’ compensation case it dismissed in March due to flaws in the claimant’s brief.
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A former Kansas City attorney received a default disbarment on May 11. A week later, he said he had no idea he’d been disbarred.
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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled May 17 that the Lincoln County Circuit Court is free to give its presiding judge supervisory authority over deputy clerks, despite a state law that gives such authority to the circuit clerk.
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The City of St. Louis Circuit Court holds pretrial detention hearings in a small courtroom that’s had a lot of eyes on it in the last year.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has nixed a request by Mark and Patricia McCloskey to satisfy the terms of their disciplinary probation by providing pro bono legal services to the conservative investigative outfit Project Veritas.
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