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Where a transgender student sued a school district and its board arguing that the denial of access to the boys’ restrooms and locker room was discrimination on the grounds of his sex in the use of a public accommodation, the ...

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Where a defendant’s amended motion for post-conviction relief was untimely filed and the motion court made no independent inquiry into whether the defendant was abandoned by post-conviction counsel, the judgment is reversed and remanded for the appropriate inquiry. Judgment is ...

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Where a husband involved in a dissolution challenged the division of property and the maintenance award, arguing that the maintenance awarded in an interlocutory judgment was not final, the award was not final because it did not order a complete ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion to suppress drug evidence found during a warrantless search of his bag, which he argued was not on his person or within his immediate control, the judgment is affirmed because defense ...

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Where an employer challenged the overruling of its motion to compel arbitration in an action filed by a former employee, the employee signed an arbitration agreement that showed an intent to delegate threshold matters of arbitrability to an arbitrator, so ...

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Where taxpayer company sought review of a holding that its sales-tax-refund claim was untimely in a dispute arising from its overpayment of Missouri sales tax on Florida sales, the judgment is affirmed because the refund claim was untimely since it ...

Where a county prosecutor challenged a circuit court order disqualifying her and her entire office from representing the state in a post-conviction relief case in which a defendant was represented on appeal by a former assistant public defender who had ...

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Where a prosecutor challenged a circuit court order disqualifying her and her entire office from prosecuting a defendant in an unlawful use of a weapon case in which a police officer was both a witness and a victim who resorted ...

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Where a defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence to support convictions for third-degree domestic assault and burglary, the judgment is affirmed because even though the victim testified that the defendant’s actions in threatening her and a male guest and shooting ...

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Where a defendant who was sentenced to death in a first-degree murder case argued that his counsel was ineffective for failing to call witnesses to testify about the defendant’s mental health at the penalty-phase retrial, the trial counsel presented strategic ...

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Where a Pennsylvania corporation sued by a Missouri subcontractor sought to prohibit a Missouri court from exercising personal jurisdiction over it in a negligent-misrepresentation action, a preliminary writ is made permanent because the corporation’s website, while accessible to Missouri residents, ...

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