Jill Morris has been selected as the newest U.S. magistrate judge for the Western District of Missouri. She will fill the position previously held by Judge Matt Whitworth, who died in October. Morris has served as the director of the ...

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Beth Phillips, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas City, has been nominated to be the permanent U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. President Barack Obama announced Phillips’ nomination in a press release today. Her nomination will be subject ...

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A Bucyrus, Kan., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud in connection with a staged attack intended to improve a settlement in a civil lawsuit. Julie R. Bernet, 39, entered her plea this morning before U.S. District ...

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John Wood has the distinction of being the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri who wasn’t touched by the national attorney firing scandal. Todd Graves, who left the office in March 2006, later revealed that he had been ...

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* Western District of Missouri, executive assistant U.S. attorney * University of Virginia Law School * Government Criminals committing fraud in western Missouri might think twice about it if they knew Daniel Nelson would be prosecuting their cases. Still in his ...

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John Wood, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced his resignation Wednesday afternoon. Wood, who has been at the post less than two years, has accepted a position as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of ...

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A federal prosecutor may not question a defendant in court about her decision not to answer police questions after her arrest, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday. Natasha L. Gentry was arrested for possession of methamphetamine with ...

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A second judge from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District is leaving to join Attorney General-elect Chris Koster’s team. Koster announced today that Judge Joseph Dandurand will be his deputy attorney general. “I have known Joe Dandurand for over ...

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Three outside judges will take the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District bench when Kansas City argues its case against the $2.1 million verdict awarded to Melissa Howard. Howard, a prosecutor in Clay County who sued the city for discrimination ...

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NovaStar Financial Inc. agreed to pay $7.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit earlier this week. The Kansas City-based company, which at one point was a leader in subprime lending, faced accusations that it attempted to drive up its ...

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