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