The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 3 that federal age discrimination laws don’t prevent Armstrong Teasdale from forcing an equity partner to retire at age 70. The ruling brings to an apparent close part of a long-running ...

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Plaintiffs suing the companies that operated and manufactured the duck boat that capsized during a July 2018 storm on Table Rock Lake near Branson, killing 17 people, have secured a key victory in their litigation. On Nov. 27, U.S. District ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on whether abortion is an appropriate subject for lawmakers to address in an appropriations bill. The arguments, set for the morning of Dec. 10, stem from state lawmakers’ decision in 2018 ...

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In an unusual step, a Missouri company is urging a federal appeals court to reopen a lawsuit filed against the company so that it can seek attorneys’ fees and a dismissal with prejudice. On Nov. 13, a three-judge panel of ...

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The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Nov. 1 that longtime Jefferson City activist Ron Calzone doesn’t have to register as a lobbyist with the state of Missouri. Though Calzone often speaks on behalf of his alter-ego nonprofit ...

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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an order granting nationwide class certification in a lawsuit alleging a Missouri company deceptively marketed the so-called “peak horsepower” of its RIDGID-brand vacuums. In an unsigned opinion Nov. 1, a three-judge ...

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A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 19 that St. Louis-based Ronnoco Coffee, which in 2015 bought an unrelated competitor’s assets at a bank foreclosure sale, had no successor liability for inventory purchases the competitor ...

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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to consider whether a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on public-sector union dues also means that mandatory state bar association membership is unconstitutional. On Aug. 30, a three-judge panel of the ...

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In a three-way split, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 5 allowed a civil-rights action to proceed against a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer accused of performing an unreasonable body-cavity search on a ...

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A federal appeals court has reinstated a Minnesota couple’s lawsuit challenging portions of the state’s human rights act which they say would require them to produce wedding videos for same-sex couples, in violation of their free-speech rights. Missouri doesn’t have ...

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For the second time, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sent a railroad employment case back to a U.S. district court because of faulty jury instructions. Referred to by plaintiff Edward Blackorby in his appeals ...

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