The Appellate Judicial Commission will meet Jan. 17 to select finalists for the next judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District. Applications will be accepted until Dec. 6 for the vacancy created by Judge Lawrence E. Mooney’s retirement ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Oct. 22 said a St. Louis County collection agency’s filing of garnishment documents did not constitute the unauthorized practice of law. Three plaintiffs — Velma L. Mitchell, Tanisha L. Winston and Kayla ...

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A panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 15 that a St. Louis County judge should not have dismissed a suit related to a fatal collision that occurred in Mexico between a bus filled with passengers ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 1 that a man partially disabled by an occupational disease still could bring a claim against the state’s Second Injury Fund even after lawmakers said such claims no longer could be ...

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A panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 8 that a dispute between Sansone Law, a Clayton-based firm, and its former client, collection agency J&M Securities, never ended in a true settlement and thus must return ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 2 grappled with an ambiguous part of the Sunshine Law pertaining to the public release of absentee ballot materials. The high court heard oral arguments in the case involving Bruce Franks Jr., the outgoing ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District will hold a ceremony on Oct. 8 in memory of former Judge Gerald M. Smith. Smith, who served on the Eastern District from 1971 to 1997, died March 4 in South Carolina, the ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Sept. 10 said a St. Louis high school was justified in conducting a suspicionless search of a student’s backpack that uncovered a gun. According to the opinion, the student, identified as L.E., ...

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A legal-malpractice insurer is not on the hook for a $750,000 consent judgment between an attorney and his client, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District held in a split ruling Sept. 3. In a 2-1 decision, the court affirmed ...

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Which of these conflicting mandates should the St. Louis Circuit Court obey: a federal court order requiring prompt bond-review hearings for hundreds of jailed defendants, or a rule allowing those defendants to change judges? Both, ruled a panel of the ...

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A St. Louis County judge again has issued a warrant to jail a St. Louis attorney for contempt of court. On July 29, Circuit Judge Kristine Kerr entered a second amended warrant for Chelsea Merta to serve 48 hours in ...

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