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The dismissal of a taxpayer suit challenging Missouri’s death penalty protocol was affirmed by the Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday. The suit was brought in Cole County against the Missouri Department of Corrections by former state representative and ...

If the final scene of “Gone with the Wind” had taken place at work, Rhett Butler might well find himself without a job or an unemployment check. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Tuesday that a woman was ...

A group of atheists has sued Kansas City officials over the planned use of $65,000 in tourism tax dollars to aid an upcoming Baptist convention. American Atheists Inc. and two Kansas City members filed the lawsuit Friday against Kansas City ...

Lantz Welch, a larger-than-life Kansas City trial attorney, died Thursday. He was 83. Welch’s death was announced in an online obituary that he wrote himself and that proclaimed the lawyer sometimes known as “Sir Lantzlot” as “large and very much ...

Four and a half years after winning a landmark workers’ compensation case, a Kansas City municipal worker has gotten the city to pay the judgment. In December 2011, Richard Robinson won a $990,000 judgment against a fellow employee, Cheryl Hooker, ...

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A ruling on a decision to strike a black prospective juror in a 2014 Jackson County trial was central to arguments Wednesday in the Western District Court of Appeals that the case should get a new trial. The appellant, Deborah ...

A Jackson County circuit judge has denied a motion for a new trial in the case of an Oklahoma woman suing two pelvic mesh manufacturers. Judge Robert Schieber’s order was filed Friday without comment on his decision. The plaintiff in ...

Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Edward R. (Ted) Ardini Jr., of Columbia, to fill the vacancy on the Western District Court of Appeals created by the retirement of Joseph M. Ellis. Ardini has served as counsel to the governor since ...

Scott O. Wright, a long-serving federal judge for the Western District of Missouri, has died. Wright, who was 93, died Monday (July 11) in Kansas City, his stepson Skip Walther, a Columbia attorney, said Tuesday. Wright served on the federal ...

The Kansas City Council has agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a wrongful death suit against the city for a 2014 collision between a minivan and two children on a skateboard that left one dead. The council unanimously approved the ...