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Attorneys can now apply to be appointed contract counsel on criminal cases for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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Read More »Eastern District tosses ‘judicial exception’ to arbitration
A dispute involving a St. Louis County dental practice will have to be litigated in court after the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District overruled a 37-year-old precedent on the enforceability of arbitration.
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Read More »Court upholds $2.5M car crash verdict
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has affirmed a $2.5 million jury verdict for an Arnold man injured in a Jefferson County vehicle crash.
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Read More »Court slashes talc verdict to $2.1 billion
A Missouri appeals court has nearly slashed in half a $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a talcum powder lawsuit after ruling a St. Louis judge did not have jurisdiction to hear claims from out-of-state plaintiffs.
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Read More »Court upholds summary judgment for Ritz-Carlton hotel
A Missouri appeals court has affirmed a ruling throwing out a suit against The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis hotel in Clayton, which alleged the hotel failed to prevent a man from entering the wrong room and getting into bed with a child.
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Read More »Court: Teacher can’t be sued for failing to report abuse
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled April 21 that a student who allegedly was assaulted by a teacher can’t sue another instructor to whom she’d reported his behavior. The court said that, while the teacher was a mandatory ...
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Read More »Court considers $4.69 billion verdict in talcum-powder case
A Missouri appeals court held rare in-person oral arguments Friday in a case that resulted in a $4.69 billion verdict for a group of women who claimed they contracted ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talcum powder. The case ...
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Read More »Court affirms $8.5M verdict against Spire
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld an $8.5 million jury verdict and granted attorneys’ fees on appeal for a St. Joseph employee of Laclede Gas Co. who accused the company of racial discrimination and retaliation. On April ...
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Read More »Eastern District lets asbestos suit proceed
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on March 31 revived an asbestos suit against a boiler manufacturer, saying there was enough circumstantial evidence for the case to proceed to a jury. St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael F. Stelzer had ...
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Read More »Court affirms attorney’s involuntary-manslaughter conviction
An appeals panel upheld Scott A. Bailey’s conviction of second-degree involuntary manslaughter.
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Read More »Court affirms verdict for Mercy Hospital housekeeper
The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld a judgment of more than $376,000 awarded to a Mercy Hospital St. Louis housekeeper in her disability discrimination suit against the hospital. On March 17, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in ...
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