St. Louis attorney William Kieran Meehan, who two years ago filed suit on behalf of an area pastor against a restaurant known for throwing dinner rolls, recently received a stayed suspension with probation following a Missouri Supreme Court order.
The high court handed down a stayed indefinite suspension against Meehan and placed him on two years' probation from the date of the court's Dec. 20 order. The court found Meehan in violations of Rules 4-1.3 and 4-1.4 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, according to the order.
Those rules cover requirements that an attorney act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client and communication with clients. The Missouri Supreme Court Order gave no details about the alleged professional conduct rules violations.
If Meehan's probation is revoked and the indefinite suspension become effective, the Missouri Supreme Court will entertain no petition for reinstatement for two years from the date the suspension would become effective, according to the order.
Meehan was admitted to the Missouri bar Oct. 11, 1985, according to his profile at the Missouri State Bar's website.
Meehan, a trial litigation attorney with the Meehan Law Firm in St. Louis, gained some notoriety in 2015 as the "Throwed Roll Attorney" when he represented North St. Louis Pastor Troy Tucker, then 67, who sued Lambert’s Café in Sikeston after she was hit in the eye by a dinner roll. Lambert’s Café has been known for thrown dinner rolls since the 1970s and still bills itself as "Home of Throwed Rolls".
Tucker said in her lawsuit that she was injured during a visit to Lambert's Cafe with members of her church in September 2014 when she was struck in the right eye by a thrown dinner roll intended for someone else. The roll scratched her cornea, which caused pain and blurriness and healed with scarring, according to the lawsuit.
The case, which initially sought $25,000, was labeled as a frivolous lawsuit by some who also called for political change.