Where a property owner challenged a civil contempt ruling that arose from his failure to comply with the requirements of a permanent injunction entered against him due to violations of zoning and right-of-way regulations, substantial evidence supported the trial court’s ...

Tagged with: Ability to Purge Civil Contempt civil practice Ordinance Violation

Where a police officer sought judicial review of the Civil Service Commission’s decision to dismiss his appeal of his termination, the city’s motion to strike the appellant brief is denied, and the trial court did not err in considering evidence ...

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  Where a school district sent a county coroner a written request for records under the Missouri Sunshine Law, which was denied and challenged by the school district, the appellate court lacked jurisdiction over the appeal because the trial court’s ...

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  Where appellant sought rehearing or transfer claiming that appellate briefing requirements were overridden by the decision in Hampton v. Big Boy, the motions are denied because there was no conflict. Motions denied. Customer Engineering Services v. Odom (MLW No. ...

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  Where car buyers, who defaulted on their loans and had their vehicles repossessed, sued a credit company, and the company sought a writ of prohibition barring the trial court from taking any action other than vacating the order granting ...

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Where an Arkansas inmate challenged the grant of summary judgment against him on his claims for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, the judgment is affirmed because the inmate did not show deliberate indifference, and the denial of his ...

Tagged with: civil practice Inmate Action Medical Expert Medical Needs

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. §1983 action, alleging that corrections officers were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs in diagnosing and treating an earlier stroke, after he was transported to the hospital and diagnosed with suffering a ...

Tagged with: civil practice Deliberate Indifference Inmate Medical Needs

  Where a dispatcher, who was fired from her county employment after her sheriff-husband resigned while facing harassment allegations, brought claims that the county and acting sheriff violated her First Amendment right to intimate association, the termination did not constitute ...

Tagged with: civil practice First Amendment Intimate Association Qualified Immunity

  Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of her pro se complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction Where the court found no basis for reversal, it affirmed the dismissal of her complaint. Judgment is affirmed. Coulter v. Bank of Ozarks, Inc. ...

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  Where a trucking company asserted it was the owner of two boxes of cash found in the cab of a tractor-trailer truck during a traffic stop, the statement that it was the owner of the currency and that it ...

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  Where in an estate-tax case the parties conceded that there was no basis for federal jurisdiction, and the parties were residents of the same state, so there was no diversity jurisdiction, the court also did not have supplemental jurisdiction, ...

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