JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court has reversed and remanded to Jasper County a judgment that awarded $100,000 in uninsured motorist coverage benefits to the survivors of a woman killed in a wreck caused by a tractor-trailer driver.
&&&The current vacancy on the Missouri Supreme Court has reignited debate about whether the way the state selects judges is a rigged system dominated by politics and trial attorneys or one that rightly champions merit.
ST. LOUIS — A proper plaintiff cannot use the state’s saving statute to revive a dismissed lawsuit that was brought by an improper plaintiff who lacked standing, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has ruled.
KANSAS CITY — A recent ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals gives pharmacists who supply lethal drugs to the state the same identity protection afforded to the execution team that administers them to death row inmates.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling regarding jurisdiction that looks like a win for the business community doesn’t negate the need for legislation reforming the way the state’s courts settle venue and joinder matters, civil justice reform advocates say.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court has denied the hearing of a case regarding a former deputy circuit clerk and 2nd Circuit President Judge Russell Steele over wrongful termination.
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court recently decided that Florida-based TracFone, which resells telecommunications services to Missouri customers, did not meet the state’s "in commerce" sales tax exemption.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court, at the behest of the Missouri Bar’s Chief Disciplinary Counsel, recently ruled to grant attorney Dennis J. Bonner’s petition to have his license to practice law revoked.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that the state does not have jurisdiction over Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in a personal-injury case that occurred in Indiana.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — St. Louis attorney Dara M. Strickland was disbarred by the Missouri Supreme Court at the behest of the Missouri Bar’s Chief Disciplinary Counsel on Feb. 28.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Clinton County couple has prevailed at the Missouri Supreme Court in a mortgage foreclosure, but their case will return to a jury at the trial court level on the question of damages.
JEFFERSON CITY – The Supreme Court of Missouri Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness (CREF) is offering a public forum to Missouri residents, with three more public feedback sessions scheduled.
ST. LOUIS — Circuit Court Judge Tony Williams has declined to appeal a state commission’s ruling that states he acted improperly during a case brought before him in 2012 as an associate district judge.
KANSAS CITY – The Missouri Court of Appeals in December upheld a trial court’s decision that a lender does not have to make a probate claim to protect its lien against a property when transferred through a beneficiary deed.
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Supreme Court has denied requests by Johnson & Johnson to delay trials over its talcum powder products, a victory for Alabama law firm Beasley Allen, which filed the lawsuit.
ST. LOUIS — A district judge has certified a lawsuit as class-action that claims millions of robocalls with a message purportedly from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee were unlawfully sent to landlines across the country.
