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St. Louis County District Defender Stephen Reynolds has put forth a partial solution to what he calls “excessive and untenable” caseloads shouldered by the attorneys in his office: a waitlist for indigent defendants. In a motion filed Oct. 28, Reynolds ...

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A Missouri appeals court has overturned a ruling denying the release of records relating to the 1994 shooting death of a Missouri State Highway Patrolman, finding that federal law does not preempt the Missouri Sunshine Law in the case. A ...

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In a 4-3 ruling, the Missouri Supreme Court said on Oct. 29 that a plaintiff can use Missouri’s courts to try to recover a $4.5 million judgment from a Kansas insurer. The split decision stems from a dispute with Key ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has sent a case back to the Court of Appeals Southern District without resolving the issue that prompted the appellate court to ask the high court to review it. The full Southern District had transferred the ...

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President Donald Trump has nominated St. Louis attorney Matthew T. Schelp to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Schelp, a partner at Husch Blackwell, was one of 10 judicial nominees Trump ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has stayed a one-year suspension and ordered 18 months of probation in the cases of two Riverside family law attorneys who admitted to violating ethics rules in their handling of a contentious child-custody dispute. The court’s ...

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The state of Missouri is set to receive $1.4 million following a multistate settlement with the distributor of the drug Suboxone, which is used to help recovering opioid addicts reduce withdrawal symptoms, according to the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. The ...

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Missouri police and prosecutors disagreed over how to curb gun violence in a state rocked by the killings of more than a dozen children in St. Louis alone this year. Law enforcement officials and advocates during a state Senate hearing ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office has not audited his compliance with conflict-of-interest rules since he took office in January, despite a policy calling for such a move. An office policy bans the attorney general from accepting campaign contributions from ...

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A judge will decide custody of the 1-year-old daughter of a Chinese woman who has been missing for more than three weeks, with the woman’s parents and the mother-in-law of her jailed U.S. husband seeking guardianship. An attorney for Ke ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 29 disbarred Kansas City attorney John W. Stapleton Jr. In an order, the court found that Stapleton, who got his law license in 1987, had violated several rules concerning client funds in his trust ...

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