A judge ruled March 23 that Clay County had no authority to charge The Kansas City Star $4,200 for copies of its outside attorney’s billing statements. Nonetheless, The Star can’t recover the costs of the litigation. The suit came after ...

Tagged with: Spencer Fane Sunshine Law The Kansas City Star

A Lee’s Summit woman who sued the City of Raytown for violating the Sunshine Law has nearly doubled her recovery after a judge awarded $41,000 in attorneys’ fees to her for prevailing in an appeal brought by the city. In ...

Tagged with: Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Paula Wyrick Raytown Sunshine Law The Gorny Law Firm

A judgment in a Jefferson County Sunshine Law case has resulted in a partial reversal from a Missouri appeals court, which ruled that a requester is entitled to fees to defend himself in a declaratory-judgment action. In the same Feb. ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled fully in favor of a Mexico attorney who brought a Sunshine lawsuit against the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis in the midst of a hotly contested 2016 primary election. ...

Tagged with: absentee ballot applications Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis David Roland Freedom Center of Missouri Missouri Supreme Court Sunshine Law

Award winners, unexpected departures, lawyers running into trouble and a legal battle involving the Sunshine Law drew the most attention from readers of Missouri Lawyers Media on molawyersmedia.com in 2019. Here are the 10 most-viewed stories on our website in ...

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Where a city clerk challenged trial court orders addressing her failure to disclose records under the state’s sunshine law and imposing a civil penalty and attorneys’ fees to the opposing party, substantial evidence supported the finding that the clerk’s refusal ...

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Where the family of a deceased patrolman, who was shot at his home, sought records of the investigation that were retained by the state highway patrol, arguing that the state’s sunshine law governed the status of the records, the trial ...

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A Missouri appeals court has upheld a $42,550 judgment against the city of Raytown for violating the Sunshine Law. On Nov. 12, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled in favor of Paula Wyrick, a ...

Tagged with: Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Paula Wyrick Raytown Sunshine Law

An attorney filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the Missouri House acted unconstitutionally by blocking public access to some lawmaker records. Sunshine and Government Accountability Project founder Mark Pedroli sued over a new internal House rule that allows lawmakers to shield ...

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An attorney filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the Missouri House acted unconstitutionally by blocking public access to some lawmaker records. Sunshine and Government Accountability Project founder Mark Pedroli sued over a new internal House rule that allows lawmakers to shield ...

Tagged with: Mark Pedroli open records Sunshine and Government Accountability Project Sunshine Law

The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 2 grappled with an ambiguous part of the Sunshine Law pertaining to the public release of absentee ballot materials. The high court heard oral arguments in the case involving Bruce Franks Jr., the outgoing ...

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