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Where a pro se appellant filed a pleading seeking a new election and challenging a prohibition on write-in candidates, the brief was inadequate because it failed to include a concise jurisdictional statement, the statement of facts was argumentative and the ...

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Where a claimant of unemployment benefits failed to file her notice of appeal within 20 days of the date the decision of the commission became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Rodebaugh ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where a claimant of unemployment benefits failed to file her notice of appeal within 20 days of the date the decision of the commission became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Lynn ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where a claimant of unemployment benefits failed to file his notice of appeal within 20 days of the date the decision of the commission became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Magee ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where a claimant of unemployment benefits failed to file his notice of appeal within 20 days of the date the decision of the commission became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Hartley ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where an unemployment compensation claimant became unemployed because documented medical restrictions prevented him from performing his job, the claimant did not leave work voluntarily, but was instead discharged, and the claimant’s physical inability to do his job did not constitute ...

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Where two witnesses for an employer testified that an unemployment compensation claimant was not being terminated at a meeting at which he was told he would not receive a raise, the commission found the employer’s witnesses to be more credible ...

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Where a landowner brought an interlocutory appeal of a blighting determination made by the City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen, substantial evidence supported the findings of economic and social liability to uphold the determination, and the blight determination and ...

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(1)Where a corporate property owner challenged a municipal ordinance applicable to rental property in Jennings, the controversy was sufficiently developed even though the city had not taken enforcement action, so the trial court erred in denying standing to the owner. ...

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Where a trial court in a dissolution ordered a couple’s marital home to be awarded to the wife “in lieu of a permanent award of maintenance,” the court misapplied the law and the court must equitably divide the couple’s property ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations maintenance Marital Property

(1)Where defendant was found guilty of attempting to entice a child and attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor after he emailed pornographic videos to an officer posing online as a minor and was arrested after he attempted to ...

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