The full Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on May 5 split 6-1 over whether a nurse who was injured while at work was owed workers’ compensation.

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In a sharply worded opinion, the court remanded a workers’ compensation case after the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission repeatedly failed to include relevant documents in the appellate record.

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The Missouri Supreme Court ended 2019 a bit more productive, slightly less divided and a little quicker than in the previous year. The court issued 33 written opinions in the latter half of 2019, bringing the year’s total to 75. ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed a nearly $870,000 verdict for the family of a man who died of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is poised to decide for the first time whether public defenders are covered by official immunity. On Dec. 11, the court heard arguments in the case of Dwight Laughlin, a man who was represented by public ...

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The Court of Appeals Southern District said Sept. 17 that a Greene County circuit judge wasn’t authorized to run a domestic-abuse treatment court he set up on his own. According to the opinion, Judge Calvin Holden created the “Domestic Abuse ...

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A $40,000 dispute between two contractors is headed to the Missouri Supreme Court after the full Court of Appeals Southern District split on whether a recently revised court rule allowed it to review one of the appellant’s arguments. The procedural ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District ruled June 20 that a former employee of a Solo Cup plant was not time-barred from receiving benefits from the Second Injury Fund for claims of hearing loss and tinnitus. The opinion, written ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on June 25 affirmed a jury verdict of more than $5 million for a railroad worker injured twice on the job. James Mitchell was injured in 2015 while working as a conductor at ...

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A split panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District reluctantly granted a new trial to a man convicted of assaulting a police officer, ruling that he should have been allowed to ask the jury to consider a lesser ...

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The Court of Appeals Southern District declined to recognize a “negligent recommendation” cause of action in a lawsuit alleging that a religious college gave a church the name of a pastor who went on to abuse a minor.

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