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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 ...

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Where the Department of Corrections challenged a jury verdict against it in a retaliation case, the trial court did not err in denying the department’s motion for a credit for the punitive damages awarded in a prior case because the ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion, arguing that his failure to timely file was the result of third-party interference by his counsel on direct appeal when counsel inaccurately informed him of the deadline, the failure ...

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Where a defendant challenged her convictions in an involuntary manslaughter case arguing that her recorded statements should not have been admitted at trial because she had not been properly informed of her Miranda rights, under the totality of the circumstances, ...

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Where five state employee defendants argued that they were officially immune from negligence claims brought against them, claims were abandoned against two of the employees before the trial court entered summary judgment in favor of the defendants, so summary judgment ...

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Where appellant city challenged an award of attorneys’ fees against it in a dispute involving an option to renew a lease in the parties’ real estate contract, the trial court did not misapply the law or abuse its discretion in ...

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Where the ACLU submitted a referendum petition sample sheet that was rejected by the secretary of state on constitutional grounds, the secretary of state’s authority to review a sample sheet for sufficiency did not extend to determining compliance with the ...

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Where the brief of an appellant in a dispute involving claims of intentional interference with contract and breaches of a contract and lease agreement included significant briefing deficiencies, which included a point relied on that failed to identify how the ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his Rule 24.035 motion following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court did not err in entering  a 2016 guilty plea on one count of class D felony violation of an order of protection ...

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Where a father challenged a probate court order appointing his child’s grandmother as the guardian for the child, the trial court did not err in finding that there was sufficient evidence to show that he was unwilling, unable or unfit ...

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Where the family of a man who died in an accident at a assembly plant sued the plant owner for wrongful death, the trial court did not err in refusing to allow a plant witness to testify because he had ...

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