Where the Second Injury Fund challenged a finding that a claimant was permanently and totally disabled in part due to preexisting conditions, triggering fund liability, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission exceeded its statutory authority when it determined the fund’s ...

Tagged with: SIF Liability Statutory Authority

Where the Missouri Landowners Alliance and the Missouri Farm Bureau appealed an order granting a certificate of convenience and necessity to a limited liability company for the construction and maintenance of an interstate electrical line and facilities, the appellants failed ...

Tagged with: Application Grant Electric Line Construction Statutory Authority

Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion to retax costs associated with his criminal trial, arguing that the trial court erred in ordering that he owed a $774 balance, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the county ...

Tagged with: costs Motion to Retax Statutory Authority

Where the Office of Public Counsel challenged the Public Service Commission’s finding that it did not have statutory authority to order the utility to issue refunds of ineligible infrastructure system-replacement surcharges, and a gas utility argued that the commission erred ...

Tagged with: Infrastructure-Replacement Surcharges Replacement Costs Statutory Authority

Where the highway patrol challenged a trial court decision remanding a disciplinary action to the superintendent, the case was not moot because the revocation of the peace-officer license was not final and the officer was entitled to make a claim ...

Tagged with: mootness Officer Disciplinary Action Statutory Authority

Kansas City Power & Light Company appealed an order of rulemaking issues by the Public Service Commission. The PSC adopted a new rule relating to certificates of convenience and necessity. On appeal, the company argued that the rule exceeded the ...

Tagged with: Certificates of Convenience and Necessity Statutory Authority Validity of Rule

Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion for a speedy trial filed decades after trial and appellate and post-conviction proceedings, the appeal must be dismissed because it lacked statutory authority, and there was no independent basis for the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law speedy trial Statutory Authority

U.S. v. Spotted Horse (MLW No. 70887/Case No. 16-3510 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

Tagged with: Criminal Law sentencing Statutory Authority Supervised Release

State v. Nelson (MLW No. 70041/Case No. WD79226 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Nunc Pro Tunc Post-Conviction Relief Statutory Authority