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Where plaintiffs brought a medical malpractice action against a clinic and a doctor claiming that the doctor provided negligent post-operative care following an ovarian cyst-removal procedure, allegedly resulting in an infection and infertility, the two-year statute of limitations began running ...

Tagged with: Continuing Care Doctrine medical malpractice Statute Of Limitations

Where a mother filed a petition for a writ of prohibition asserting that the trial court exceeded its authority by entering a temporary child custody order without conducting a hearing on the motion, the court was required to conduct a ...

Tagged with: Hearing Requirement Temporary Child Custody

Where dispatchers claimed statutory prohibitions against picketing violated constitutional rights to equal protection, free speech, peaceable assembly and collective bargaining under the Missouri Constitution, and the trial court declared Section 105.585(2) unconstitutional and enjoined the defendants from applying the prohibition ...

Tagged with: Labor Negotiations picketing Severance

Claimant appealed from the denial of workers’ compensation benefits, which she sought after suffering a fall at work when she slipped on her school’s linoleum floor. Where claimant failed to show a particularly hazardous condition of the floor, her inability ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Evidence of Unusual Hazard or Risk

Plaintiff appealed from the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant trustee, which ruled that plaintiff, beneficiary of the trust, had violated the trust instrument’s no-contest provision and forfeited his rights to the trust. Where plaintiff had filed two ...

Tagged with: Trust Violation of No-Contest Provision

Defendant was charged with four sex crimes. He was found guilty on two charges, and the trial court declared mistrial on the other two counts. The trial court’s judgment was silent as to the two charges for which it had ...

Tagged with: Grant of Partial Mistrial statutory rape

Petitioner sought review of the administrative hearing decision that ruled petitioner was not entitled to the resale exception from sales tax and therefore was liable for tax on furnishings it sold to a hotel chain for use in guest rooms. ...

Tagged with: Resale Exemption sales tax

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