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The Missouri Supreme Court vacated and remanded three cases on Jan. 11 where each criminal defendant, including two juveniles tried as adults, objected to the use of two-way video in their hearings.

A Missouri Senate committee is weighing a bill that would reduce Missouri’s statute of limitations for personal injury suits to two years from the date of injury.

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday debated a proposal that would raise the bar for amending Missouri's Constitution, an effort that follows the success of several Democratic policies at the polls.

The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled that the state of Missouri is not responsible for most of its share of a $13.825 million settlement reached in 2018 with family of a man freed after 30 years of wrongful incarceration.

The chiefs support a lawsuit that raises concerns about a new state law forbidding local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws.

A man who has spent more than two decades in prison for a murder he claims he didn’t commit may get a new trial as early as this summer.

 Stephen R. Wigginton, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, had his Missouri bar license suspended Dec. 21 due to two misdemeanor convictions in Madison County, Illinois.

On Jan. 5, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resurrected a husband’s claim that his late wife’s employer failed to pay premiums that would have entitled him to a far larger life insurance payment.

Each year, Missouri Lawyers Media scours its Verdicts & Settlements database to recognize the state-licensed attorneys who achieved the largest verdicts, settlements, judgments and defense wins of the past 12 months.

On Dec. 28 the Court of Appeals Western District ended a 40-year game of inmate hot potato between Missouri and California, ruling in favor of the inmate’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 

The Missouri Supreme Court has left decision-making on COVID-19 safety up to individual presiding judges. Jackson County and St. Louis courts are canceling in-person jury trials scheduled in the upcoming weeks due to rising COVID-19 numbers.