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Where appellant and respondent both claimed injuries as the result of an auto accident between the appellant’s personal vehicle and a garbage truck driven by respondent, the trial court erred in finding that the appellant could not prove proximate causation ...

Tagged with: auto accident comparative fault Proximate Causation

Where a plaintiff brought a declaratory judgment action to determine the limited liability company member status of defendant in a dispute arising from the defendant’s alleged misuse of LLC funds, the filing of a petition to determine LLC status did ...

Tagged with: Involuntary Withdrawal Limited Liability Company Member Status

Where the brief of pro se appellants did not contain a fair and concise statement of facts, did not set forth a standard of review under each claim of error and the points relied on were confusing and failed to ...

Tagged with: Inadequate Brief Pro Se Appellants

Where a husband challenged a judgment in favor of his wife’s parents on his claims to declare void an amendment to the wife’s trust and the wife had petitioned for dissolution prior to her death, the husband had no ownership ...

Tagged with: Marital Interest Ownership Of Farm Trust Amendment

Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing, the pro se motion was untimely, so the judgment is vacated and remanded with directions to dismiss the motion. Vacated. Gatling v. State (MLW ...

Tagged with: Post-Conviction Relief Pro Se Motion timeliness

Where appellant brought claims against a nonprofit corporation and requested records in part to determine whether the corporation violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, the trial court did not err in dismissing the appellant’s amended petition because he failed to ...

Tagged with: discovery Failure To Plead Standing

Where a claimant challenged the denial of her claim against the Second Injury Fund, the finding that the claimant failed to prove that the combination of her preexisting disabilities and primary injury rendered her permanently and totally disabled was not ...

Tagged with: SIF Liability Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a bus company service manager, who claimed his former employer engaged in discriminatory practices, challenged the grant of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the defendant on his petition seeking damages under the Missouri Human Rights Act, the ...

Tagged with: Interstate Compact Defense MHRA

Where a defendant challenged his convictions for first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault, the trial court did not err in admitting the results of a warrantless blood test taken while the defendant was unconscious since the test was supported by ...

Tagged with: Involuntary Manslaughter Newly Discovered Evidence Warrantless Blood Test

  Where plaintiffs brought claims that the defendants, a limited liability company and its owner, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law when it obtained judgments through collection lawsuits or by assignment, the acts performed by the individual defendant on  ...

Tagged with: Attorney’s Fees MMPA Unauthorized Practice

Plaintiffs, all Mexican citizens, filed personal-injury and wrongful-death claims against defendants arising from an accident in which defendants’ train collided with a bus at a train crossing. The trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ complaint under the doctrine of forum non conveniens. ...

Tagged with: Forum Non Conveniens Train Accident