Associate judge replaces Anthony Rex Gabbert, whom governor named in April to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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