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Plaintiff appealed from the commission’s final award reversing an administrative law judge’s award granting plaintiff permanent total disability benefits due to a work injury in which plaintiff was exposed to insect-control chemicals and due to injuries plaintiff suffered when her ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the award denying his claim for workers’ compensation benefits. On appeal, plaintiff argued that the overwhelming weight of the evidence established that defendant was a construction-industry employer employing at least one worker, or alternatively, was an employer ...

Tagged with: Employer Liability Workers’ Compensation

Plaintiff appealed the adverse grant of summary judgment in her action under the Missouri Human Rights Act. The trail court ruled that defendants did not employ six or more employees and therefore did not qualify as an “employer” under the ...

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The trial court entered a judgment involuntarily terminating T.B.’s parental rights to her child, A.R.B. On appeal, T.B. raised multiple claims of error in the termination proceedings. Where T.B.’s claims of denial of counsel and complaints regarding the guardian ad ...

Tagged with: Collateral Attack Termination of Parental Rights

Defendant was convicted of sodomy, statutory rape and incest. At trial, the state presented evidence showing defendant was the victim’s father, including the victim’s birth certificate listing defendant, multiple witnesses who testified that defendant was the victim’s father and defense ...

Tagged with: Evidence of Blood Relationship Incest

The parties entered a contract for defendant to provide pharmacy services for residents of the Missouri Veterans Home; the contract provided that the state, in its sole discretion, could renew the contract on a yearly basis. Defendant declined to perform ...

Tagged with: Breach State Contract

Where an employee sued his former employer and a human resources officer for disability discrimination, religious discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act, and the defendant moved to dismiss or to compel arbitration, the trial court did not ...

Tagged with: Arbitration Court Costs disability discrimination

Where a defendant argued that the trial court erred in allowing him to represent himself for charges including resisting arrest, the record showed that the defendant’s waiver of counsel was voluntary, knowing and intelligent, and the court’s inquiry was thorough,  ...

Tagged with: Self Representation Voluntariness Waiver Of Counsel

Where a defendant argued that the motion court erred in denying his motion for post-conviction relief because his counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion to sever other counts of statutory sodomy of which he was acquitted, counsel ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Post-Conviction Relief Severance

CWhere a defendant who was determined to be indigent by the motion court challenged the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief without the appointment of counsel, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the appointment of counsel for indigent ...

Tagged with: Appointment Of Counsel Indigent Defendant Post-Conviction Relief

Where appellant challenged the denial of his petition to expunge a 2003 conviction for unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, the record showed no other findings of guilt on any misdemeanor or felony between the date he filed his petition and ...

Tagged with: Dismissal of Petition Expungement