Eight years ago, the Missouri Supreme Court suggested that if lawmakers didn’t like its take on the state’s lesser-included offenses statute, there was a way to fix it. A bill passed in the final days of the 2022 legislative session would do just that.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled May 17 that the Lincoln County Circuit Court is free to give its presiding judge supervisory authority over deputy clerks, despite a state law that gives such authority to the circuit clerk.

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The City of St. Louis Circuit Court holds pretrial detention hearings in a small courtroom that’s had a lot of eyes on it in the last year.

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Successful judges generally have long and impressive resumes. Few, however, have ever detailed their musical play lists quite as extensively as Judge Robin Ransom.

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The appeal of a man who allegedly harassed his judicial officer and challenged the constitutionality of the state law on second-degree harassment did not hold up in the Missouri Supreme Court.

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In the latest chapter of the Phyllis Schlafly legal saga, her son appealed his sister’s former litigation against him over the late activist’s trust.

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The full Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on May 5 split 6-1 over whether a nurse who was injured while at work was owed workers’ compensation.

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A recent decision of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals obliterated a $333,600 class action settlement that a federal judge approved more than five years ago.

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A federal jury awarded $46.75 million to a man who suffered severe throat injuries when a cloud of noxious gas was released from a northeastern Missouri plant.

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The Missouri Supreme Court on May 11 weighed whether school districts and other political subdivisions enjoy sovereign immunity for claims of retaliatory discharge.

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Some attorneys say doctors’ fear of criminal charges from a potential Missouri abortion law could cause them to endanger patients by delaying care.

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