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Longtime Jackson County Judge Edith Messina has joined the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Read More »Longtime prosecutor moves to Jackson County bench
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Jennifer M. Phillips to the 16th judicial circuit Tuesday.
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Read More »Nixon soon to weigh 14th judgeship in Jackson County
It ultimately will fall to Gov. Jay Nixon to fill the Jackson County Circuit Court seat vacated by Judge Edith Messina. And, if history is any indicator, a prosecutor could end up with the job.
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Read More »Decade-old class action suit drags on
After nearly 10 years, two appeals and a 2007 jury verdict, no one is entirely sure how much a class action lawsuit against American Family Mutual Insurance Co. is worth. True, a jury awarded – and an appeals court restored ...
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Read More »Western District reinstates $17.3 million award
An appeals court has reinstated a $17.3 million jury verdict that a Jackson County trial judge had thrown out after trial. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District this morning said the class of about 314,000 plaintiffs had established that ...
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Read More »Jury verdict against Davis affirmed
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Friday affirmed a $500,000 civil verdict against a man whose underlying criminal charge was thrown out earlier this month. Matthew Davis pleaded guilty in May 2005 to abandoning his girlfriend’s body in ...
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Read More »Judge tosses $150K verdict
A Jackson County judge threw out a $150,000 jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City lawyer, saying too much time had expired since he did the work for which he was seeking compensation. Philip Koppe won the verdict in ...
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Read More »Appeals court affirms civil verdict against Matthew Davis
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has affirmed a $500,000 civil verdict against a man whose underlying criminal charge was thrown out earlier this month. Matthew Davis pleaded guilty in May 2005 to abandonment of a body and drug ...
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Read More »Legal Roundup
â– ABA to honor Doreen Dodson ST. LOUIS (Daily Record) A St. Louis attorney is receiving a national award from the American Bar Association for her outreach efforts to enhance the public’s awareness of the need for a fair and ...
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Read More »â€˜But for a single question’
One word. Well into a scathing opinion that threw out the guilty plea of a man accused of abandoning his girlfriend’s corpse, Jackson County Judge Edith Messina took a moment to marvel at how what she called a “fraud upon ...
Tagged with: Edith Messina Jackson County Missouri Court of Appeals Western District
Read More »Judge tosses guilty plea in abandoned body case
A Jackson County judge issued a sharply worded opinion that threw out a man’s 22-year criminal sentence and said the county prosecutor’s office “perpetrated a fraud upon the trial court” for withholding evidence in the case. Judge Edith Messina set ...
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