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Where a defendant sought an order to compel the county clerk to present a bill of costs to the county commission, the defendant had a remedy in a motion to retax costs, and his points on appeal did not properly ...

Tagged with: Court Costs Mandamus Relief Motion to Retax

Where a defendant appealed the trial court’s denial of his motion to retax costs to the state, the judgment is affirmed because the court’s determination as to which party should be taxed costs is part of the judgment itself, so ...

Tagged with: Court Costs Motion to Retax

Where a defendant, who was convicted of charges arising from his alleged sexual abuse of his girlfriend’s child, challenged the exclusion of evidence that the victim’s father was physically abusive to the child, the defendant failed to prove that the ...

Tagged with: Child Sex Abuse exclusion of evidence prior offender

Where the state challenged a judgment expunging respondent’s arrest record, arguing that he was statutorily ineligible for expungement, the expungement of the respondent’s speeding conviction restored him to the status he occupied prior to the conviction as if the conviction ...

Tagged with: Arrest Record Expungement

Where a city clerk challenged trial court orders addressing her failure to disclose records under the state’s sunshine law and imposing a civil penalty and attorneys’ fees to the opposing party, substantial evidence supported the finding that the clerk’s refusal ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Sunshine Law

Where appellant challenged the denial of his motion to set aside a default judgment entered against him, the appellant met his burden to show that the summons relied on for service of process had expired and had not been extended, ...

Tagged with: Default Judgment Expired Summons Personal Jurisdiction

Where tenants challenged the grant of summary judgment in favor of a landlord in a contract dispute, arguing that the landlord failed to establish a prima facie case because the documents attached to the summary judgment motions were inconsistent with ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Landlord-Tenant Dispute summary judgment

Where the family of a deceased patrolman, who was shot at his home, sought records of the investigation that were retained by the state highway patrol, arguing that the state’s sunshine law governed the status of the records, the trial ...

Tagged with: FOIA Sunshine Law “Agency Records”

Where a prison inmate filed a complaint against the corrections department claiming a violation of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act arising from the sale of defective televisions to inmates, the trial court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely for ...

Tagged with: Correctional Center Account Statement Jurisdictional Prerequisite trial de novo

Where appellant challenged the grant of partial summary judgment to respondent on her claim of conspiracy to set fire to her mobile home, the disputes raised by the appellant did not raise genuine issues of material fact but were merely ...

Tagged with: Civil Conspiracy summary judgment

Where appellants challenged a judgment against them for actual and punitive damages arising from a fist fight in a bar parking lot, the trial court did not err in failing to grant a new trial based on juror nondisclosure because ...

Tagged with: Discovery Sanction juror nondisclosure witness testimony