A 2016 law permits the state parole board to review only the life sentences — but not additional, shorter sentences — of offenders who as juveniles were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole but now may seek review of their ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District says that even a strictly construed worker’s compensation law allows an injured man’s wife to be compensated for nursing her husband after an accident. Ronald Reynolds was a truck driver for Wilcox Truck ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Aug. 20 that the head of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wasn’t authorized to fire an officer after a man drowned while in his custody. The court, affirming an earlier ruling by ...

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A federal judge has held federal prosecutors in contempt for violating preservation orders and failing to cooperate with a special master’s investigation of video and audio recordings of attorney-client conversations at a detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas. U.S. District Judge ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District on Aug. 6 affirmed a $146,000 verdict in favor of a trust that was owed money, despite claims from the defendant that the trust had sought two mutually exclusive theories of recovery at trial. ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has ruled that graduate students at the University of Missouri count as “employees” under the Missouri Constitution’s protections for collective bargaining rights. But, the appellate court added, it’s not clear if the school ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has upheld a $1.48 million verdict against the Missouri Department of Corrections in a Kansas City man’s retaliation case against the department. On July 23, a three-judge panel ruled in favor of plaintiff ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said July 23 that a judge can’t throw out a $43,000 judgment he issued by mistake without first giving the parties a chance for a hearing. Tequea Fisher purchased a 2003 Ford Explorer ...

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Briefing deficiencies led the Court of Appeals Western District to dismiss what appears to be its first case involving the use of home-sharing platform Airbnb. The July 9 ruling came in the appeal of Carlos Guerra, who leased two apartment ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court will not consider the ACLU of Missouri’s arguments that the state of Missouri should expedite the referendum process to enable it to start collecting signatures earlier as part of its efforts to undo new abortion regulations. ...

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A woman who helped her adult son purchase a vehicle cannot be held liable for negligent entrustment for a fatal crash caused by her son, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has ruled. In a ruling June 25, a ...

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