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A worker can prove the nature and extent of a disability without expert testimony if the injury is a simple one, the Missouri Court of Appeals has held. The Eastern District, in Bock v. City of Columbia, reversed the award ...

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8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil practice Application of amendment; STAA 08-1222 Timothy J. Elbert, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. True Value Co., Defendant-Appellee Appeal From: U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota Submitted: Nov. 13, 2008 Filed: Dec. 19, 2008 ...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Arbitration Class action waiver; unconscionable ED90949 Dequae Woods, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. QC Financial Services Inc., Defendant/Appellant Appeal From: St. Louis County Circuit Court, Judge Richard C. Bresnahan Handdown Date: 12/23/2008 Opinion Author: Judge Sherri B. ...

Where a plaintiff was injured when defendant was showing a 1977 truck, which was neither insured nor registered, to a prospective buyer and the truck lurched forward when the foot grip on the clutch petal slipped, the truck was not ...

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Where a verdict director in a medical malpractice case used a term that was never specifically defined by the instructions or by the evidence offered at trial, the use of the term constituted a roving commission for the jury because ...

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Where the Administrative Hearing Commission placed a neurosurgeon’s medical license on probation for five years after a determination that the surgeon engaged in unprofessional conduct by performing an inappropriate operation on a patient, the issue could not be determined by ...

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(1) Where a defendant was convicted of four counts of third-degree domestic assault, resisting lawful detention and obstructing government operations, the defendant could be charged separately for causing the apprehension of physical harm and the resulting physical contact without violating ...

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Where plaintiffs filed three pro se claims against an estate for funeral and agricultural services and the trial court dismissed the claims with prejudice based on a finding that the plaintiffs’ failure to sign the claims was a fatal defect, ...

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Where plaintiffs who brought a securities fraud class action against Centene Corporation and several officers failed to show that the defendants had misrepresented a material fact or acted with scienter, the district court properly dismissed the action under the elevated ...

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Boy, this economy is on everyone’s minds. At press time the auto bail out had been nudged into a ditch by the powers in Washington, and of course the various lunatic financial markets responded poorly. I don’t know that I ...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal law Sentencing; procedural error 07-1993 United States of America, Appellee, v. Russell Henson, Appellant Appeal From: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Submitted: Jan. 15, 2008 Filed: Nov. 24, 2008 ...