Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has upheld the granting of a real estate license to William L. Held, an ex-felon and recovering addict. In the May 28 opinion, the appeals panel ruled that the Administrative Hearing Commission has ...

When several Shop ‘N Save grocery stores closed last year in north St. Louis, residents in some neighborhoods were left without easy access to healthy produce. A local nonprofit organization, A Red Circle, aims to fill the void with a ...

Tagged with: farmer's market food desert grocery stores Shop 'N Save

A Missouri judge issued an order late last week ensuring the state’s only abortion clinic can continue providing the service, acting just hours before the St. Louis Planned Parenthood facility’s license was set to expire. The Missouri Department of Health ...

Tagged with: abortion ban closed Planned Parenthood ruling St. Louis

A case alleging Ancestry.com’s DNA service violated the privacy of its users is heading to arbitration following a Western District Court of Appeals ruling on May 28. A three-judge panel unanimously reversed a lower-court ruling denying the tech company’s motion ...

Tagged with: Ancestry DNA Western District Court of Appeals

A St. Louis judge is deciding whether to grant an order that would allow Missouri’s only abortion clinic to keep its license to perform abortions past Friday. Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer heard an hour of arguments Thursday on Planned Parenthood’s ...

Tagged with: abortion ban Missouri Planned Parenthood

A woman serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of her husband — and who maintains her innocence — will not get a chance to test newly discovered evidence for DNA following a Missouri appeals court ruling. On May ...

Tagged with: DNA Holden murder sentence Patty Prewitt Western District Court of Appeals

A court hearing was scheduled Wednesday on an effort by the only abortion clinic in Missouri to retain its license. Planned Parenthood says it may be forced to stop providing abortions at its St. Louis facility because the state is ...

Tagged with: abortion clinic hearing Missouri Planned Parenthood

After several quiet years, tornadoes have erupted in the United States over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest. On ...

Tagged with: midwest rockies storms tornadoes

A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east ...

Tagged with: damage flooding Kansas City storm tornado

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled May 21 that an arbitrator must decide whether to arbitrate employment claims by two former store managers for Dollar General. In a unanimous opinion, the court said a Laclede County judge was correct to send ...

Tagged with: arbitrate employment claims Dollar General employment discrimination Laclede County Missouri Supreme Court

The Court of Appeals Eastern District says the family of a man who died from asbestos exposure can recover under Missouri’s enhanced-benefits law, even though it was enacted decades after his employer went out of business. In a split ruling ...

Tagged with: Asbestos Exposure Court of Appeals Eastern District mesothelioma Missouri’s enhanced-benefits law Valley Farm Dairy Company