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Where a flight attendant claimed an airline fired her as a result of handicap discrimination in violation of the Missouri Human Rights Act, her claim was not pre-empted by the federal Railway Labor Act (RLA), because it existed independent of ...

Over 40 exhibitors displayed and demonstrated their wares at Law Office 2001. The exhibits ran from the mundane to the dazzling. Here’s a sampling. Imagine yourself trying a contract case. You have the crucial contract in your hand and are ...

A doctor diagnosed a worker’s bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome in spring 1988 and performed surgery on the right hand. He also told the worker that surgery on her left hand would probably be necessary later. The worker’s employer and its ...

Where an injured woman’s demand to settle her personal injury claim for “policy limits” was rejected, and the woman later obtained a judgment for more than the policy limits, she was entitled to prejudgment interest on the amount of her ...

Missouri lawyers got a first-hand look at the future of the legal profession last week. The occasion was the Law Office 2001 seminar and exposition in St. Louis, and it brought together the people and products that will take the ...

For reasons of cost Missouri Lawyers Weekly will not produce and sell the 1994 Revised Statutes of Missouri on disk. The reason is that the Joint Committee on Legislative Research, which controls the computer tape from which the statutes on ...

Even though a husband filed no answer to his wife’s divorce petition, the trial court should have appointed a guardian ad litem for the wife’s baby, according to the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals, because the husband ...

An employee who was fired when she blew the whistle on a company scheme to collect fraudulent rebates from a supplier was entitled to punitive damages even though the case consisted only of circumstantial evidence, the Court of Appeals’ Western ...

A worker who was injured as a result of the repetitive trauma of her job as a meat wrapper could assert her claim for workers’ compensation, even though she did not notify her employer of the injury, according to the ...

What is the value of a $5 billion judgment against a convicted murderer with few assets languishing in prison? It is far from $5 billion, as the parents of one of Robert Berdella’s victims have learned; but it’s not chicken ...

A debtor’s Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan that proposed to fully repay nondischarge-able student loans as a separate classification unfairly discriminates against other unsecured creditors, according to the Eighth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. Even though public policy ...