Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

The district court entered judgment for plaintiff on its breach-of-contract claim. On appeal, defendant argued that the district court erred by ruling that defendant’s bid package was incorporated into the parties’ contract. Although defendant’s bid package was not incorporated into ...

Tagged with: Breach Incorporation of Bid Package Usage-of-Trade Evidence

Where appellant city challenged an award of attorneys’ fees against it in a dispute involving an option to renew a lease in the parties’ real estate contract, the trial court did not misapply the law or abuse its discretion in ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Lease Renewal

Where plaintiff brought an action alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and defendant challenged the denial of its motion to compel arbitration, the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not err in finding that arbitration provision ...

Tagged with: Arbitration Delegation Provision

Where a manager hired by an oil company to manage and expand its business filed a constriction-lien statement when he left the company and a subsequent lawsuit alleging claims that included breach of contract, fraud, promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment, ...

Tagged with: Construction Lien independent contractor Lien Rights

Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal with prejudice of his action arising from his termination from a graduate program at the University of Minnesota Where there was no error in the district court’s decision, the court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Dismissal With Prejudice Pro Se Civil Action

Defendant adopted the name Federated National Holding Company. Plaintiff became concerned defendant’s name was confusingly similar to its own, and the parties entered a coexistence agreement under which defendant agreed to adopt a new name within seven years and provide ...

Tagged with: Coexistence Agreement Personal Jurisdiction trademark infringement

Where an insurer challenged the denial of its motion to set aside judgments in a dispute over an agreement to limit damages in a personal injury lawsuit being handle by a personal injury attorney, the amount of insurance coverage, the ...

Tagged with: Agreement To Limit Damages Notice Personal Injury Case

Plaintiff filed suit against defendant, alleging defendant committed breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and fraudulent misrepresentation with respect to plaintiff’s studies in defendant’s Ph.D. program in mechanical and aerospace engineering. On ...

Tagged with: breach of contract Educational Malpractice Doctrine Fraudulent Misrepresentation

Where homeowners brought an action against an electric cooperation for the alleged negligent installation of a transformer, claiming damages from a lost sale of their property after the buyers backed out, the judgment is affirmed because the owners did not ...

Tagged with: Damages Lost Sale property damage

Where a funeral services company challenged a trial court’s judgment in favor of a mother’s claim to recover a payment for the cremation of her deceased son, which she filed because the company returned the deceased son’s remains to his ...

Tagged with: Cremation Contract Funeral Insurance Policy Right Of Sepulcher

  Where appellants challenged the denial of a motion to compel arbitration, arguing that an arbitration agreement entered into by respondents with a separate party applied to them as well, the judgment is affirmed because the altering of the terms ...

Tagged with: Altered Terms Arbitration contracts Counteroffer