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Where a landowner brought an interlocutory appeal of a blighting determination made by the City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen, substantial evidence supported the findings of economic and social liability to uphold the determination, and the blight determination and ...

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(1)Where a corporate property owner challenged a municipal ordinance applicable to rental property in Jennings, the controversy was sufficiently developed even though the city had not taken enforcement action, so the trial court erred in denying standing to the owner. ...

Tagged with: Authority Municipal Ordinance Ripeness

Where a trial court in a dissolution ordered a couple’s marital home to be awarded to the wife “in lieu of a permanent award of maintenance,” the court misapplied the law and the court must equitably divide the couple’s property ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations maintenance Marital Property

(1)Where defendant was found guilty of attempting to entice a child and attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor after he emailed pornographic videos to an officer posing online as a minor and was arrested after he attempted to ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Enticement sentencing

Where a plaintiff brought an action against a neighboring property owner claiming that its roofers entered and vandalized his property, the plaintiff’s petition alleged that he is a leaseholder of the adjacent property, and the trial court erred in dismissing ...

Tagged with: civil practice property damage Standing

Occupational disease; notice SD29311 Allen Allcorn, Claimant-Appellant, v. TAP Enterprises Inc. and Travelers Commercial Casualty Co., Respondents-Respondents Appeal From: The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission Handdown Date: 2/26/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Gary W. Lynch Opinion Vote: Judges Burrell and Rahmeyer ...

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Appeal; acceptance of benefits ED91078 Katherine J. Millman, Appellant, v. James S. Millman, Respondent Appeal From: St. Louis County Circuit Court, Judge Douglas R. Beach Handdown Date: 3/3/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Kurt S. Odenwald Opinion Vote: Judges Norton and Cohen ...

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Double jeopardy; robbery charges ED46436-01 State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Christopher X. Bohlen, Appellant Appeal From: St. Louis County Circuit Court Handdown Date: 3/3/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Patricia L. Cohen Opinion Vote: Judges Odenwald and Norton concur Introduction Christopher Bohlen ...

Tagged with: Double Jeopardy Robbery Charges

Where an unemployment compensation claimant failed to file his notice of appeal within 20 days of the date the decision became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Gavranovic v. Norwood Hills Corporation ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where a purchaser who acquired a collector’s deed after purchasing property at a delinquent tax sale brought a quiet title action, the recorded grantee on the assignment of the deed of trust had no legally cognizable interest and so lacked ...

Tagged with: Quiet Title Action Real Property Standing

(1)Where landowners sought to widen a road in connection with an easement used by them and other neighbors to access their property, the defendant’s failure to enjoin the other easement holders was not fatal to jurisdiction because they were not ...

Tagged with: Easement Quiet Title Action Real Property