Several courts and public legal organizations across Missouri and beyond have taken steps, including suspending jury trials and high-volume dockets, to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 15 that a St. Louis judge should not have heard a Virginia woman’s claim against Johnson & Johnson, throwing out a $110.5 million verdict in her favor. The verdict was the second-largest ...

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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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Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Craig K. Higgins as an associate circuit judge for the St. Louis Circuit Court. Higgins will fill the vacancy left by Judge Calea Stovall-Reid’s recent elevation to the circuit bench. He is an associate city ...

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Gov. Mike Parson has elevated Judge Madeline Orling Connolly to the circuit bench in St. Louis. Connolly, who was an associate circuit judge, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mark H. Neill. The 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission ...

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A St. Louis jury decided in favor of the Bi-State Development Agency on claims that it was responsible for a man’s injury at a downtown MetroLink station. On July 6, 2012, plaintiff Rusty Redman of Illinois was boarding an eastbound ...

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A man shot in the parking lot of a St. Louis gas station reached a $1 million settlement with the station’s owners. On Aug. 18, 2013, Rodney V. Gibson was at a BP gas station at 3140 Olive St. in ...

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The Missouri Senate has given first-round approval to a bill that would alter Missouri’s venue and joinder laws — in a way far different from what lawmakers had envisioned just two weeks ago.

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Jurors returned a six-figure judgment against a lender who evidently garnished a debtor’s wages without properly serving her first. “They garnished her for over two years — closer to three,” said Christopher Roberts of Butsch Roberts & Associates. “They garnished ...

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After nine days as the St. Louis Circuit Court’s presiding judge, Robin Ransom is getting a promotion. Gov. Mike Parson on Jan. 9 appointed Ransom to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District. She will fill the vacancy created by ...

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A Missouri appeals court upheld a $3 million judgment for a former police officer in a discrimination case despite a juror’s Google search on punitive damages during deliberations.

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