With what seems at times like having 101 lending products on the market and increasing interest rates, some real estate professionals are reconsidering the usefulness of certain practices that have helped more borrowers qualify to become homeowners. One practice that ...
Read More »DNA test allowed in guilty case
By Emily Umbright Staff Writer
Read More »Letters deemed insufficient evidence to grant new deportation hearing
Two letters are not enough evidence for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant a second deportation hearing to an Ethiopian woman fearing poor medical treatment and political persecution. Kefay Gebremaria sought to reopen her deportation case based ...
Read More »'Daily Record' Now Features Jackson County Verdicts
The Daily Record has introduced a new feature in today’s paper called Verdicts & Settlements Report. This feature will appear every Thursday in the newspaper and will highlight recent verdicts and settlements awarded in cases in Jackson County. “Attorneys have ...
Read More »License suspension voided by test malfunction
Some rules aren’t meant to be broken, especially the rules outlining the procedure for assessing a driver’s sobriety, held the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, chiding the officer who relied on a breath analysis test that gave a false ...
Read More »Federal case must remain federal
Two lawyers locked in a bitter legal battle over money will not have their case decided in Missouri’s state courts, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday, finding one of the lawyers already filed the same case ...
Read More »Holden appoints KC attorney
Missouri Gov. Bob Holden has appointed Kansas City, Mo., attorney John Boyd to the temporary position of acting chairman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission works with the Missouri Department of Labor and ...
Read More »Couple merges movies and law for CLE course (1205)
Butch Rigby loves movies, so he left his law practice and built a theater. “My passions are real estate and movies,” Butch Rigby said. “I have a tremendous respect for attorneys and I know the hard work most attorneys put ...
Read More »First Female City Prosecutor Living Her Dream
Beth Murano has always wanted to work in a prosecutor’s office. The Iowa native was recently appointed to the position of City Prosecutor for Kansas City, MO. In the process of attaining the job she always wanted, she became the ...
Read More »Actual housing costs examined
More Americans are homeowners now than ever in the nation’s history. Sixty years ago fewer than 50 percent of households owned their home. By the middle of this year that level of homeownership had reached 68.6 percent. But as more ...
Read More »COA reduces wrongful death judgment
A Missouri appeals court decreased the amount of a wrongful death judgment by $4 million because state law treats the three individuals who filed the lawsuit as one plaintiff. Clarence Cook and his children, Clarence Cook Jr. and Eugenia White, ...
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