The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled March 28 that an arbitrator was justified in reducing an award of attorneys’ fees for a plaintiff who pursued the wrong defendant earlier in the case.

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An appeals court affirmed a judgment siding with a Clean Water Commission penalty against two Platte County farming and trucking companies.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed $140,000 in damages for a former Missouri Department of Corrections officer who alleged her supervisor discriminated against her for being a Lebanese Muslim person.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District declined to order a more lenient sentence for a man convicted of committing murder when he was 14.

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Kansas City Public Schools’ liability insurance doesn’t cancel out its sovereign immunity over an alleged sexual assault at a school, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District determined.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Jan. 17 that an insurer satisfied its liability for an $8.4 million judgment when it paid its $100,000 policy limits plus interest more than eight years ago.

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In a temporary employee’s discrimination claim, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District reversed a default judgment against a company awarding the plaintiff more than $500,000 in damages, but not the sanctions against the company.

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A vendor that lost points in its proposal to operate a Department of Revenue license office in Troy over an address mishap received good news and bad news from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Dec. 13 affirmed a $1.75 million judgment for a Black woman who faced racial discrimination at an automotive plant in Liberty.

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A jury instruction has brought the case determining the alleged negligence of a truck company and its driver in a 2018 highway crash ending in a man’s death to square one after a Missouri Court of Appeals Western District opinion.

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After a corrections officers’ union fought the state’s decision to revoke its payroll deductions, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a lower court’s position siding with the corrections officers.

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