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The state of Missouri no longer would face financial punishment for wrongdoing in some civil lawsuits under legislation debated this week in the state Senate. The proposal would give the state what’s called “sovereign immunity,” the legal concept that protects ...

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Two married lawyers in Kansas City have lost their appeal in a lawsuit accusing them of encroaching onto publicly owned land by building a fence beyond the bounds of their property near a popular recreational trail. In a Feb. 4 ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court says a recent reduction in the penalties for repeat drug offenses doesn’t apply to offenders whose lengthy sentences already are final. The ruling, contained in two split opinions issued Feb. 4, leaves two men and approximately ...

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The Republican-led Missouri Senate this week passed a proposal to once again ask voters to change the state’s redistricting rules. Less than two years after voters approved a new redistricting plan, senators voted 22-9 in favor of another constitutional amendment ...

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A judgment in a Jefferson County Sunshine Law case has resulted in a partial reversal from a Missouri appeals court, which ruled that a requester is entitled to fees to defend himself in a declaratory-judgment action. In the same Feb. ...

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The off-duty Kansas City Police Department detective who arrested a Kansas activist at a Kansas City Public Library event in 2016 is entitled to qualified immunity, a federal judge ruled before throwing out counts against him. In a Jan. 30 ...

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Two St. Louis-area black educators have formed a support group to inspire more black students to go into teaching and to give them a place to network with one another. Darryl Diggs, a 37-year-old assistant principal at Parkway South High ...

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Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology. ...

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University of Missouri-Kansas City law student Hannah Bassham had a sideline view of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 2. The third-year law student went to the game in Miami as a ...

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The man at the center of a precedent-setting Missouri Supreme Court decision on board bills has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the county that charged him for his incarceration and jailed him again when he could not pay those ...

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The creative side of designer Courtney Tharpe’s soon-to-launch clothing line was humming along last year when she was stymied by practical considerations. She needed fabric, patterns and, most importantly, sewers. In six months, she had scouted companies from Los Angeles ...

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