Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

A Missouri-based official at the United Auto Workers was charged Thursday with corruption in an alleged scheme to embezzle union money and spend cash on premium booze, golf clubs, cigars and swanky stays in California. It’s another blow to the ...

Tagged with: embezzlement allegation Gary Jones United Auto Workers Vance Pearson

It sounds like science fiction hype, but supporters believe ultrafast Hyperloop transportation could become reality within a decade, propelling passengers from Kansas City to St. Louis in a 30-minute trip. “We’ve already completed a feasibility study, and now we’re on ...

Tagged with: Hyperloop Interstate 70 Transportation

A judge has ordered Clay County to restore nearly $1 million that the county commission had declined to appropriate to the budget of the county sheriff. In an Aug. 29 order, Judge Daren L. Adkins found that the county commission ...

Tagged with: appropriations Clay County Commission Daren L. Adkins Sheriff Paul Vescovo

The Village of Bel-Ridge in north St. Louis County has won summary judgment in a dispute over its enforcement of traffic laws. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Nancy W. McLaughlin on Aug. 27 found in favor of Bel-Ridge, a community ...

Tagged with: Bel-Ridge Mack's Creek Law traffic fines

A federal appeals court has reinstated a Minnesota couple’s lawsuit challenging portions of the state’s human rights act which they say would require them to produce wedding videos for same-sex couples, in violation of their free-speech rights. Missouri doesn’t have ...

Tagged with: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals First Amendment same-sex couples Telescope Media Group wedding videos

A legal-malpractice insurer is not on the hook for a $750,000 consent judgment between an attorney and his client, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District held in a split ruling Sept. 3. In a 2-1 decision, the court affirmed ...

Tagged with: Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District The Bar Plan

Missouri is in a “crisis” with violent crime in its largest cities, Gov. Mike Parson said Tuesday. Parson met with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and about a dozen other area leaders to address ...

Tagged with: Gov. Mike Parson gun violence Lyda Krewson Sam Page

The Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 3 rediscovered Missouri’s so-called “purse exception” hidden, as it were, inside a pack of cigarettes. In a fractured opinion in 2016, the court held that police officers could not conduct warrantless searches of items ...

Tagged with: Derrick L. Carrawell Missouri Supreme Court purse exception

The Court of Appeals Western District ruled that a judge correctly affirmed a $35 million arbitration award for a man injured in a motorcycle accident, despite claims that the insurer should have been allowed to take part in the case. ...

Tagged with: Barnes Law Firm Court of Appeals, Western District GEICO Casualty Co. insurer-intervention law Richard A. Aguilar

A Jefferson County lawyer lost his mom and dad’s case in the Missouri Supreme Court but raised an issue — the only issue, actually — that the state legislature plans to tackle in this week’s special session. The session, which ...

Tagged with: Department of Revenue Missouri Supreme Court Scott. D. Kehlenbrink special session vehicle sales tax

The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether the plaintiffs in a medical-malpractice verdict the court overturned earlier this year should get a new trial. The court on Sept. 4 heard a rare second round of arguments in the case. In ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Case Missouri Supreme Court negligent credentialing