St. Louis attorney picked as MU curator COLUMBIA (AP)  A St. Louis attorney is Gov. Jay Nixon’s choice to fill one of three vacancies on the University of Missouri system’s Board of Curators. Fifty-one-year-old Don Downing is a former chief ...

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At a press conference last year after a particularly contentious day in the Missouri House, Speaker Rod Jetton was asked whether he was concerned that the General Assembly’s lower chamber had just passed unconstitutional legislation. “Which one are you talking ...

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Two win Greene County judicial commission seats SPRINGFIELD (MOLW) Attorneys Brent Green and Clif Smart won a run-off election Feb. 25 to fill out the seats on the commission that will nominate judges for Greene County Circuit Court. Green, an ...

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  It was a case challenging the constitutionality of workers’ compensation reform laws passed at the beginning of then-Gov. Matt Blunt’s term – politically tinged and high profile. How the Missouri Supreme Court handled the case was unusual. First, the ...

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  In the hours after the Missouri Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision on the constitutionality of the 2005 changes to the state’s workers’ compensation law, some surprising press releases started circulating the state. In particular, both the Missouri ...

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Attorney Bill Placke has been amazed at the level of opposition from The Missouri Bar and other legal groups to what he sees as reasonable efforts to update the state’s plan for selecting judges. Placke became the point man on ...

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Scott Eckersley never intended for it to work out this way. He was going along doing his job as a lawyer for the governor’s office. But he saw something happening that he didn’t think was right, and he shared those ...

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Workers whose injuries are no longer addressed by the workers’ compensation system have the right to sue their employers for recovery, a splintered Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision, almost 15 months in the making, answered a lawsuit that ...

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Almost 15 months after it heard arguments in the case, the Missouri Supreme Court has issued a splintered decision in a constitutional challenge to the Legislature’s reform of workers’ compensation. The lawsuit, argued in November 2007, presented a series of ...

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Ken Romines sounds almost wistful about his days on the trial bench. After more than three years at the appeals court in St. Louis, he still finds the proceedings formal, almost lonely. “It’s very difficult to see the lawyers in ...

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The Federalist Society insists it takes no stand on policy issues and simply wants to foster debate. But a host of e-mails to and from staff in former Gov. Matt Blunt’s office shows key members of the conservative lawyers’ group ...

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