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  Where a hospital appealed a determination that nurses were eligible for unemployment benefits while they were on strike, a Missouri statute providing unemployment benefits to employees who strike when the employer has committed an unfair labor practice is not ...

Tagged with: Labor Unemployment Benefits Unfair Labor Practices

(1)Where a male waiter who alleged sexual harassment by a male restaurant manager brought discrimination claims against his employer and won a $60,000 jury verdict on a constructive discharge claim as well as a verdict declaring the employer liable for ...

Tagged with: MHRA Punitive Damages sexual harassment

(1)Where the state introduced evidence of defendant’s drinking in a voluntary manslaughter trial and the trial court gave the voluntary intoxication instruction to the jury, there was adequate evidence of intoxication to support the instruction, which was necessary to help ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Manslaughter Voluntary Intoxication

Where employees of a juvenile office challenged their statutory exclusion, as employees subject to hiring, supervision and firing by court or juvenile officer rather than by the county, from membership in the County Employees’ Retirement Fund, the eligibility requirements did ...

Tagged with: Constitutional eligibility Equal Protection

  Where a daughter signed an arbitration agreement on behalf of her mother who was moving into a nursing home, the arbitration agreement did not prevent the woman’s son or daughter, who signed the agreement pursuant to a power of ...

Tagged with: nursing home wrongful death Wrongful Death Action

Where a mentally and physically disabled woman whose mother received benefits for her care under the Personal Care Assistance program appealed the termination of the benefits when the statute was changed to exclude individuals with legal guardians, the new statute ...

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Where a district court remanded an ERISA case for the plan administrator to consider generic medical exhibits submitted by the claimant, the plan administrator opened the door by suggesting remand, so the court did not abuse its discretion by accepting ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits ERISA remand

Drug Charges Sufficiency Of Evidence Sentencing   Where witness testimony established that defendant made numerous drug deliveries, collected money and sold cocaine and an officer testified that defendant’s knowledge of a drug conspiracy’s dealings was more than that of a ...

Where inmates sued under the Free Exercise clause claiming the prison’s limitation on their observance of a Wiccan religious holiday to three rather than eight hours was unconstitutional, the inmates failed to offer any evidence that the time limitation significantly ...

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Where an inmate claimed prison official violated his rights when the prison failed to notify him that packages sent to him by his attorney were rejected because they did not comply with prison regulations, a reasonable prison official would understand ...

Tagged with: civil rights Qualified Immunity

Where insurers sought to enjoin a civil action pending between the insurers and health care providers, the district court properly granted the health care providers’ motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in a dispute arising from alleged ...

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