Two women facing contested unemployment benefits won the favor of appellate courts in July 19 opinions as pro se litigants.

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Missouri’s appellate courts are mostly back to their pre-pandemic operations, but the state’s long drought of trials has left them with fewer cases to be argued and decided.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on June 28 declined to review a court’s changes to the summary for a ballot initiative now that it’s too late to gather signatures.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled June 28 that a repeat offender doesn’t have to serve a mandatory minimum sentence for a years-old second-degree robbery following a series of changes to the state’s criminal code.

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The chief judge serves as the chief administrative officer of the court, presiding at court en banc meetings and representing the court to the public.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled June 21 that a wrongful death suit against a snowplow driver can proceed despite the defendants’ claims of immunity.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled June 7 that the state’s open records law was not written to require government agencies to disclose messages that no longer exist.

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled May 31 that an insurer is on the hook for part of a $4.5 million judgment despite its claim that the underlying policy was obtained fraudulently.

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A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday ruled that former Gov. Eric Greitens didn’t violate open records laws by using a message-deleting app to chat with his staff.

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A recent appellate opinion has clarified how an insurance company can intervene in a Section 537.065 agreement, while another issued the same day leaves unanswered questions for another court.

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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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