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Jury sides with employee in $500K severance dispute
A Kansas jury awarded a health care employee $500,000 in January after the employee filed suit against his former employer for unpaid wages.
Criminal Law: Severance-Child Molestation
Where a defendant argued that a trial court erred when it refused to sever resisting-arrest and gun charges from child-molestation and statutory rape charges, the sex offense charges provided the […]
Constitutional Law: Picketing-Labor Negotiations-Severance
Where dispatchers claimed statutory prohibitions against picketing violated constitutional rights to equal protection, free speech, peaceable assembly and collective bargaining under the Missouri Constitution, and the trial court declared Section […]
Criminal Law: Post-Conviction Relief-Effectiveness of Counsel-Severance
Where a defendant argued that the motion court erred in denying his motion for post-conviction relief because his counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion to sever other […]
Criminal Law: Firearm Charge- Severance- DNA Testimony
Where a defendant in a robbery case argued that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing DNA expert testimony in response to a hypothetical question, the point is denied […]
Criminal Law : Severance – Prior Inconsistent Statement – Lineup Procedure
State v. Scott (MLW No. 71456/Case No. ED105071 – 23 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Hess, J.)
Criminal Law : Search Warrant – Particularity – Severance
State v. Douglass (MLW No. 71415/Case No. SC95719 – 51 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Breckenridge, J.; Draper, Russell and Stith, JJ., concur; Fischer, C.J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Wilson, J., concurs in opinion of Fischer, C.J.; Powell, J., not participating)
Negligence : Motion To Transfer – Severance – Punitive Damages
Barron v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (MLW No. 71022/Case No. SC96151 – 17 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Powell, J.; Draper, Russell and Breckenridge, JJ., concur. Wilson, J., concurs in separate opinion filed; Fischer, C.J., and Stith, J., concur in opinion of Wilson, J.)
Criminal Law : Severance – Connection – Prejudice
State v. Collins (MLW No. 70969/Case No. WD78993 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)
Criminal Law : Severance – Escape Rule
State v. Carter (MLW No. 70750/Case No. WD79529 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.)
Criminal Law : Burglary Conspiracy – Severance
U.S. v. Benedict (MLW No. 70482/Case No. 14-3412 – 15 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)
Criminal Law : Severance – Sex Trafficking
U.S. v. Geddes (MLW No. 70063/Case No. 15-3731 – 12 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)
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