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Negligence: Negligent Entrustment-Control
Where parents whose daughter was killed in an auto accident sued the mother of the allegedly negligent driver of the vehicle in which the daughter was a passenger, arguing that the mother negligently entrusted the vehicle to her son although she knew that he was habitually reckless, the judgment is affirmed because the mother lacked […]
Employer – Employee : Unemployment Security – Independent Contractors – Control
Timster’s World Foundation v. Division of Employment Security (MLW No. 69474/Case No. WD79053 – 18 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)
Criminal Law : Warrantless Search – Control – ‘Purse Exception’
State v. Carrawell (MLW No. 68669/Case No. SC94927 – 38 pages) (Fischer, J.; Stith, and Draper, JJ., concur; Wilson, J., concurs in separate opinion filed; Breckenridge, C.J., and Russell, J., concur in opinion of Wilson, J.; Teitelman, J., concurs in part and dissents in part in separate opinion filed)
Negligence : Trip And Fall – Premises Liability – Control
Medley v. Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc. (MLW No. 67633/Case No. ED101434 – 17 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Clayton III, J.)
Real Property : Community Dock – Homeowners’ Association – Control
Hellmann v. Sparks (MLW No. 67456/Case No. SD32740 – 34 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Sheffield, J.)
Criminal Law : Constructive Possession – Control – Sufficiency Of Evidence
State v. Wright (MLW No. 66957/Case No. WD76163 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Gabbert, J.)
Unemployment Compensation : Tax Contributions – Independent Contractors – Control
Gateway Taxi Management v. Division of Employment Security (MLW No. 66717/Case No. WD76886 – 26 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)
Criminal Law : Drug Trafficking – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Control
State v. Maldonado-Echeverria (MLW No. 64927/Case No. WD74860 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Howard, J.)
Criminal Law: Drug Possession – Jointly Occupied Premises – Control
State v. Politte (MLW No. 64698/Case No. SD31469 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Scott, J.)
Civil Rights: Discrimination – Independent Contractor – Control
Glascock v. Linn County Emergency Medicine (MLW No. 64330/Case No. 12-1311 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)
Negligence: Borrowed Servant – Exclusivity – Control
Bovier v. Simon Crane Service, Inc. (MLW No. 64270/Case No. ED98072 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Clayton III, J.)
Negligence: Premises Liability – Dangerous Condition – Control
Tiger v. Quality Transportation, Inc. (MLW No. 64193/Case No. SD31693 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Scott, J.)
Latest Opinion Digests
- Criminal Law: Child Abuse-Sufficiency Of Evidence-Closing Argument
- Civil Rights: Religious Freedom-RLUIPA-Res Judicata
- Civil Practice: Res Judicata-Stop Work Order
- Immigration: Drug Conviction-Removability-Overbreadth of State Offense
- Civil Practice: Asset Forfeiture-Sanctions
- Civil Rights: Due Process-Failure to State Claim
- Probate : Revocable Trust – Amendment – Reformation
- Employer – Employee : Unpaid Commissions – At-Will Status
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel – Conflict Of Interest
- Appellate Practice : Jurisdiction – Final Judgment
- Domestic Relations : Parenting Plan – Child Support
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Guilty Plea – Sentence Advice
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