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Where appellant challenged the denial of injunctive relief in his breach of contract case, even if injunctive relief was a viable remedy, the expiration of the relevant contract and the closing of the appellant’s business rendered the court unable to ...

Tagged with: Contract Case Injunction mootness

Petitioner appealed a ruling reversing her award of unemployment compensation benefits after it was determined that petitioner was terminated for alleged misconduct. Where employer’s documentary evidence did not support its testimonial evidence of petitioner’s misconduct, which included petitioner’s alleged violations ...

Tagged with: Termination for Misconduct Unemployment Compensation

Where an employer challenged the state’s acceptance of a second charge of discrimination from a former employee, the judgment is affirmed because the second charge did not relate to the same practice or act described in the first charge, and ...

Tagged with: Race Discrimination Right-To-Sue Letter Second Charge

Defendant appealed the judgment in favor of plaintiffs, which found that graduate workers at the University of Missouri were employees under the Missouri Constitution and that plaintiff union was the duly elected bargaining representative of graduate workers, thereby requiring the ...

Tagged with: collective bargaining Graduate Student-Workers

Where a defendant in a drug-possession case argued that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress and admitting into evidence contraband found upon a search of his vehicle, a confidential informant provided information and a drug dog ...

Tagged with: Automobile Exception Warrantless Search

The state filed an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion to suppress her statements to law enforcement and physical evidence to be presented in her trial on a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Where ...

Tagged with: Motion to Suppress Evidence Possession of Controlled Substances

Defendant appealed the denial of his motion alleging ineffective assistance of counsel for trial counsel’s failure to call a corroborating witness and to fully investigate a note that provided clarity as to the target of defendant’s threatening statements. Where the ...

Tagged with: Failure to Investigate and Call Witnesses ineffective assistance of counsel

Where appellants challenged a jury verdict in favor of respondent trust on a petition for damages alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and quantum meruit, the judgment is affirmed because the trial court did not err in giving verdict-directing instructions ...

Tagged with: breach of contract instructions unjust enrichment

Where an employer argued that the trial court erred in dismissing its petition, which argued that the Missouri Commission on Human Rights lacked jurisdiction to issue a right-to-sue letter because the plaintiff employee’s administrative complaint was untimely, under recent case ...

Tagged with: MHRA Amendments Right-To-Sue Letter timeliness

Where a wife involved in a dissolution challenged the division of marital property,  the child-custody decision and the denial of her request for maintenance, the wife could not challenge the division of property because she stated that she had no ...

Tagged with: Child Custody maintenance Property Division

Where a car buyer claimed that the seller violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act by selling her a defective car without clear title, and the trial court first entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff and then replaced it with ...

Tagged with: MMPA Notice Nunc Pro Tunc