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Where an employee sued his former employer and a human resources officer for disability discrimination, religious discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act, and the defendant moved to dismiss or to compel arbitration, the trial court did not ...

Tagged with: Arbitration Court Costs disability discrimination

Where a defendant argued that the trial court erred in allowing him to represent himself for charges including resisting arrest, the record showed that the defendant’s waiver of counsel was voluntary, knowing and intelligent, and the court’s inquiry was thorough,  ...

Tagged with: Self Representation Voluntariness Waiver Of Counsel

Where a defendant argued that the motion court erred in denying his motion for post-conviction relief because his counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion to sever other counts of statutory sodomy of which he was acquitted, counsel ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Severance

CWhere a defendant who was determined to be indigent by the motion court challenged the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief without the appointment of counsel, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the appointment of counsel for indigent ...

Tagged with: Appointment Of Counsel Indigent Defendant Post-Conviction Relief

Where appellant challenged the denial of his petition to expunge a 2003 conviction for unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, the record showed no other findings of guilt on any misdemeanor or felony between the date he filed his petition and ...

Tagged with: Dismissal of Petition Expungement

Where the brief of a pro se appellant in a negligence case included significant deficiencies such as an argumentative statement of facts and a failure to include a section identified as the argument, and the appellant also failed to provide ...

Tagged with: Deficient Brief Negligence Case

Where a father appealed a determination by the state’s Family Support Division that affirmed the division’s certification to the U.S. Department of State that the father owed an arrearage of child support in an amount that exceeded $2,500, the judgment ...

Tagged with: Certification Child-Support Arrearage Educational Expenses

Defendants appealed the judgment of condemnation of the Childress Cemetery, located on land owned by defendants. Childress family members had petitioned for condemnation of the land as a private cemetery, alleging defendants had prevented the family’s access to the cemetery ...

Tagged with: condemnation Family Cemetery

The director of revenue appealed the trial court’s judgment granting plaintiff’s petition to reinstate his driver’s license following an administrative denial. The trial court ruled that the director had lacked probable cause to submit plaintiff’s alcohol-influence report into evidence and ...

Tagged with: reinstatement Submission of Alcohol-Influence Report

Where the driver of a school bus, who was injured in an accident with a Bi-State bus, challenged the remittitur of her personal-injury award from $1.8 million to $420,606, the judgment is reversed and remanded because a statute mandating that ...

Tagged with: Personal-Injury Award Remittitur

Where a defendant challenged his conviction and sentence on charges including assault in the first degree, the victim’s pre-trial identification of the defendant from a photo lineup was not unduly suggestive, and the admission of a firearm found in a ...

Tagged with: Admission of Gun jury instructions Pre-Trial Lineup