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Claimants appealed from the denial of their claim for enhanced mesothelioma benefits, after decedent’s work for employer exposed him to inhalable asbestos fibers. Where an employer was required to make an affirmative act to elect to accept enhanced mesothelioma liability, ...

Tagged with: Mesothelioma Benefits Workers’ Compensation

Where appellant, who had submitted a Sunshine Law request to a city for documents connected with allegations of criminal conduct by a police officer, challenged the denial of his request to view an unredacted copy of the relevant report, the ...

Tagged with: attorney fees discovery Sunshine Law Request

Defendant was convicted for second-degree drug trafficking and found to be a prior drug offender. Defendant was accordingly sentenced to a statutorily required prison term without probation or parole. After the sentencing statute was repealed, defendant sought a declaration that ...

Tagged with: Repeal of Parole Ineligibility Statute Right to Parole Hearing

Defendant was found guilty of second-degree drug trafficking and also was designated a prior and persistent offender, and as required by statute was sentenced to a prison term without probation or parole. After the statute was repealed, defendant sought a ...

Tagged with: Eligibility for Parole Repeal of Sentencing Statute

Plaintiffs appealed from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to the state in their action challenging legislation imposing requirements on a state agency’s purchase of land. The legislation had imposed certain notice and hearing requirements on the Department of ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Authority to Acquire Land State Agency Purchase of Land

Where a university staff scientist, who suffered from herniated discs, sued the university and a supervisor for retaliation after her termination, on an issue of first impression the court finds that an accommodation request under the Missouri Human Rights Act ...

Tagged with: Accommodation Request MHRA Retaliation

Defendant appealed the order overruling its motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration of plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit. Plaintiff claimed that she had vision issues and had her store’s assistant manager complete electronic documents for her upon plaintiff’s hiring, ...

Tagged with: Arbitration disability discrimination

The state adopted a voter ID law allowing voters to identify themselves by, among other options, executing a specified affidavit and presenting certain forms of non-photographic identification. The state appealed from the judgment declaring the affidavit requirement of the voter ...

Tagged with: Affidavit Requirement Voter ID Law

Where an officer saw a driver cross the fog line and drive on the shoulder, the officer had probable cause to stop the vehicle, and the stop did not constitute an unreasonable seizure, so the trial court did not err ...

Tagged with: Probable Cause traffic stop

  Where a trial court accepted a defendant’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity while also finding him incompetent to proceed, the defendant’s habeas claim was not procedurally barred, and the court exceeded its authority and violated the ...

Tagged with: Competence due process NGRI Plea

Several individuals filed seeking declaratory judgment that several state parking laws and a city ordinance were unconstitutional. The city filed a cross-claim against the state seeking to declare the state parking laws unconstitutional or invalid. The trial court granted summary ...

Tagged with: constitutionality State Parking Statutes