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Where a defendant challenged his conviction for the possession of drugs and paraphernalia, arguing that there was insufficient evidence that he knowingly possessed methamphetamine residue on a cut straw, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant’s knowledge of the drug’s ...

Tagged with: Drug Possession Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where an automotive group, which was a defendant in a class action arising from its sale and marketing of hail-damaged vehicles as “brand-new” and “factory-fresh,” challenged the denial of its motion to stay a class action and compel the parties ...

Tagged with: Arbitration class action Purchase Contracts

Where the Missouri Department of Transportation challenged the quashing of a writ that sought to prohibit the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission from accepting additional evidence in a workers’ compensation case, the Missouri Supreme Court’s holding in Mantia v. Missouri ...

Tagged with: Additional Evidence “Proper Review”

Where appellant challenged a judgment in favor of a city on his petition for quiet title, ejectment, trespass, inverse condemnation and nuisance, the appellant’s petition brought the appeal against the city, three additional named parties and unknown “Doe” parties, and ...

Tagged with: Finality Of Judgments Quiet Title

Where in a dispute over whether an oil and gas lease terminated for lack of oil production, an oil company filed an inverse condemnation claim against the city after the city denied its applications for a conditional use permit and ...

Tagged with: inverse condemnation Oil and Gas Lease

Where a water company appealed the Public Service Commission’s report and order approving its petition to change the company’s infrastructure system replacement surcharge to recover costs incurred in system replacements and relocations, the commission’s exclusion of estimated net operating loss ...

Tagged with: Estimated Net Operating Loss Infrastructure System Replacement Recovery of Costs

  Where a juvenile challenged a judgment finding him to be delinquent, the evidence showed that the juvenile sent a pornographic photo to a minor, but the juvenile court erred in finding that the juvenile sent a photo of his ...

Tagged with: Delinquency Finding Sexual Misconduct Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where the state challenged the grant of a petition to respondent, who claimed he was exempt from registration as a sex offender, the trial court did not err in finding that the respondent was exempt from registration requirements pursuant to ...

Tagged with: Petition for Exemption sex offender registry

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for domestic assault, evidence that the victim was strangled resulting in unconsciousness was sufficient to support a finding that she suffered a physical injury to support the conviction for domestic assault in the second ...

Tagged with: domestic assault Physical Evidence Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where appellant challenged the dismissal with prejudice of her petition against respondent and a bank for claims including conversion and fraud, the dismissal by docket sheet entry did not meet the requirements of Rule 74.01(a) and was not a judgment, ...

Tagged with: Dismissal Docket Sheet Entry jurisdiction

Where the Second Injury Fund challenged a finding that a claimant was permanently and totally disabled in part due to preexisting conditions, triggering fund liability, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission exceeded its statutory authority when it determined the fund’s ...

Tagged with: SIF Liability Statutory Authority