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A 38-year-old man who sued his parents for childhood sexual abuse within three years after he claimed to have recovered his “repressed memory” of the events cannot refile the suit after he voluntarily dismissed it, says the Court of Appeals’ ...

Keeping The Books – What To Know, What To Do More Than ‘Income & Outgo’  “Keeping the books for a small law practice is easy. All you need is a ledger book with two columns – Income and Outgo. ...

To the Editor: I wish to concur with the comments made by the Honorable L. Glen Zahnd of the Circuit Court of Andrew County, printed February 12, 1996, concerning the final report of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Organization of ...

To the Editor: I read with interest your report of State v. Driver, [MLW No. 14913, December 25, 1995]. It appears to me that the court minority, if not majority, is misinterpreting the meaning of Rules 29.07 (b)(4), 29.15 and ...

A roofing contractor who used the letters “ROOF” as part of his telephone number could not get trademark protection for the number, the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Eastern District has held in a case of first impression. This is because: ...

The parents of a drunk driver who deliberately shot and killed himself while being arrested could not bring a wrongful death action against the arresting officer, the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District has held. The court said the public ...

A doctor who knew his patient suffered from blackouts had no duty to warn the patient not to drive a car, says the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals. As a result, people who were hurt when the ...

Even though a man was 50 percent at fault for an accident, he and his wife are entitled to judgment for 100 percent of the damage to their truck because the wife co-owned the truck as a tenant by the ...

Drunk drivers are subject to criminal prosecution and license revocation without violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause, the Missouri Supreme Court has held in an eagerly-awaited decision. The Court said this is because the primary purpose of the civil revocation ...

Where a 10-year-old girl’s description of an act of sodomy showed a knowledge of sexual affairs beyond that expected for her age, her out-of-court statements could be used against her father in a sexual abuse trial, the Missouri Supreme Court ...

Civil Practice ‘Continuing Tort’ Holds Insurance Coverage To One Limits Payment The interplay of limitations statutes and insurance coverages can be tricky. Here’s a case where the argument used to defeat a statute of limitations defense had the unexpected side-effect ...