A case that resulted in Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s third-largest plaintiff’s verdict of 2015 has reached a confidential settlement. On Monday, the Western District Court of Appeals granted debt buyer Portfolio Recovery Associates’ motion to dismiss its appeal of an $82 ...
Read More »Schieber stepping down from the bench
Jackson County Circuit Judge Robert Schieber has announced plans to retire from the bench, effective May 31. Schieber has served on the court for nearly 17 years, first as a family court commissioner for six years, then as circuit judge ...
Read More »River flooding case starts in KC
A trial focused on the federal government’s management policy for the Missouri River started Monday in Kansas City. The suit was filed in 2014 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington. The plaintiffs include more than 300 landowners ...
Read More »Supreme Court commission solicits public input
The Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial & Ethnic Fairness held its second in a series of four feedback sessions Tuesday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. The group, established in 2015 by Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge, ...
Read More »GPS device-maker Garmin reeling after Kansas worker killed
GPS device-maker Garmin long has revered diversity in its workforce, even when the locale of its ever-sprawling operational headquarters — a largely white Kansas City suburb — didn’t reflect it. It’s the place 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla came to work a ...
Read More »Drug-test error ends in $15k verdict against Concentra
An Odessa man whose prior positive drug test was mistakenly given to a new employer and claimed the incident led to his firing was awarded a $15,000 jury verdict Friday. James Blum sued the occupational health company Concentra Health Services ...
Read More »Missouri lawyer acquitted in killings of dad, his girlfriend
A suburban Kansas City attorney has been found not guilty of killing her millionaire father and his girlfriend in a vicious attack at their Missouri lake house that prosecutors said was fueled by jealousy, even though jurors said they doubted ...
Read More »Chemist wins $150,000 verdict against Kansas City
A chemist for Kansas City’s Water Services department won a partial victory in her suit against the city, receiving a $150,000 jury verdict on her claim of a sexually hostile work environment. The verdict followed nearly four hours of deliberations ...
Read More »Kansas City chemist alleges discrimination, hostile workplace
Allegations that Kansas City’s Water Department regularly promoted less-qualified white employees at the expense of black workers, and was a hostile work environment were at the center of a trial that started this week in Kansas City. The plaintiff, LaDonna ...
Read More »Criminal defense lawyer Pat Peters dies
Patrick W. Peters, a well-known criminal defense lawyer in Kansas City whose work challenged the prosecutor’s office he once sought to lead, died Saturday. Peters, 62, died of meningitis he contracted in November after conducting depositions for a case in ...
Read More »Appeals court cuts $433M judgment
The second largest plaintiff’s verdict of 2015 was cut from $433.7 million to just under $188 million Tuesday by a Missouri appeals court. The Western District Court of Appeals found that new hospital construction in Lee’s Summit and Independence counted ...
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