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The measure now heads back to the GOP-led House to review Senate changes. The deadline to pass legislation is Friday.
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Read More »Missouri House axes constitutional change for parent control
Missouri's Republican-led House on Monday voted down a proposed constitutional amendment for parent control and restrictions on how teachers talk about race and racism.
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Read More »Jury awards ‘shockingly’ large verdict to women assaulted in prison
A federal jury in Kansas City awarded $20 million to four women who alleged they were assaulted by a correctional officer while they were inmates at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.
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Read More »Claire McCaskill calls on lawyers to run for office
Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said all levels of government could use an injection of civility that judges expect of attorneys toward opposing counsel. McCaskill spoke to a May 2 audience at The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Law Day event.
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Read More »Supreme Court says ruling with unresolved arguments isn’t final
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on April 26 that a lawsuit challenging a sales tax statute aimed at Jefferson County isn’t final for purposes of an appeal until the trial judge has ruled on all the ways the law allegedly is unconstitutional.
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Read More »Women’s Justice Awards 2022: Publisher’s Letter, Honorees
The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.
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Read More »Demise of Roe v. Wade could bring constitutional fight to Missouri
If the fight over abortion in the U.S. Supreme Court is indeed finished, it may be about to begin in the Missouri Supreme Court.
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Read More »The late Judge Paul J. Simon to be memorialized
The late Judge Paul J. Simon is to be remembered in a special session of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday, May 10. Simon died on June 6 last year at 87.
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Read More »Former Alito clerk finds Supreme Court leak ‘extraordinary and tragic’
Lawyers in Missouri were shocked and fascinated by the unprecedented May 2 leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion. But for Barbara Smith, a St. Louis-based partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, it packed a particular punch.
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Read More »Grand jurors: St. Louis prosecutor’s actions ‘reprehensible’
Members of a grand jury that indicted an investigator in the criminal case against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens urged a state disciplinary board to take stronger action against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, calling her conduct “reprehensible.”
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Read More »Missouri House panel backs new plan for congressional seats
A Missouri House committee advanced a new plan for dividing up the state's congressional districts Wednesday, seeking to break a standoff with the Senate and avoid the need for court intervention to adopt voting districts for this year's elections.
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