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Jury awards $1.3M against Suzuki dealership
A jury awarded more than $1.3 million to a couple who said they were deceived by a North Kansas City used car dealership. The Chad Franklin Suzuki dealership, which has since gone out of business, has been the subject of much litigation as well as investigations by the attorneys general of Missouri and Kansas. The […]
Jury awards $1.3 million against Suzuki dealership
A jury awarded more than $1.3 million to a couple who said they were deceived by a North Kansas City used car dealership. The Chad Franklin Suzuki dealership, which has since gone out of business, has been the subject of much litigation as well as investigations by the attorneys general of Missouri and Kansas. Max and […]
Suit against dealership won’t be arbitrated
The Missouri Court of Appeals said a lawsuit against a car dealership in Clay County can go forward. Heartland Chevrolet had sought to compel arbitration after Kristyn and Michael Krueger filed suit after they bought a vehicle. The appeals court said nothing in the contract the couple signed requires the case to go to arbitration. […]
Gender discrimination claim rejected
A Clay County jury rejected a female employee’s claim of gender discrimination against a Kansas City transportation company. But the jury sided with the plaintiff on her retaliatory discharge claim, awarding $375,000, including $350,000 in punitive damages. “This is a case where the jury could clearly see the fact that the company refused to investigate […]
Half a win offers important lessons
Many trial lawyers know how it feels to win a case, and just as many know what it is like to lose. A slightly rarer event is when a trial lawyer wins and loses parts of the same case on the same day. That happened in one of our featured cases this week. The plaintiff […]
Ex-lawmaker cleared of sex charges
A former state representative from St. Louis County was found not guilty on Friday of sexual assault charges in Cole County. Clay County jurors took four hours to find Scott Muschany not guilty on Friday of a felony charge of deviate sexual assault. They also found him not guilty on a separate misdemeanor count of […]
Settlement reached over personal injury claim
A woman has reached a $2.45 million settlement in her case against a commercial vehicle operator that injured her in a car accident. In August 2005, the woman, 54 at the time, was driving in Clay County. A truck working as a commercial vehicle ran a red light and was broadsided by the plaintiff. The […]
Who employs municipal judges?
Municipal judges in Kansas City are part of the state’s 16th Judicial Circuit, but their paychecks come from the city. They are selected through a system very similar to Missouri’s Nonpartisan Court Plan, but the Kansas City Council makes the selection. And ultimately, it’s up to the council to fire those judges, but only after […]
Drunken-driving accident case settles for $725,000
An underage bar patron injured in a drunken-driving accident has reached a $725,000 settlement of his Clay County case against the bar and bar owner, who was allegedly behind the wheel in the single-car accident. The identities of all parties are subject to a confidentiality agreement. The plaintiff, a 20-year-old male, was served alcohol on […]
City not immune in wrongful death suit
The dismissal of a wrongful death suit over a boy’s drowning near a Kansas City school was reversed by an appellate court on Tuesday. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled the parents of Christopher Dill properly claimed in their petition a dangerous condition was to blame for the boy’s death, which was enough […]
Students sue Sanford Brown for fraud
A lawsuit has been filed against Sanford Brown College, alleging that the institution fraudulently misrepresented its educational offerings. The five-plaintiff lawsuit is the second one filed in St. Louis County, but additional multiparty suits against the college and its parent company, Career Education Corp., have been filed elsewhere in the state, particularly Clay County. While […]
Eastern, Southern District judges to fill in during Howard appeal
Three outside judges will take the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District bench when Kansas City argues its case against the $2.1 million verdict awarded to Melissa Howard. Howard, a prosecutor in Clay County who sued the city for discrimination during the municipal judicial selection process, is married to Western District Judge Vic Howard. Because […]
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