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Forgetting that she had been served with a civil complaint did not justify a defendant’s three-month delay in responding, held the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, affirming a default judgment of more than $580,000 against a marina owner sued for ...

A father’s attempt to sever decreed higher-education costs and child support for his three daughters fell short of a reversal in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday, due mostly to his failure to file a motion for ...

By Mike Nixon Special to the Daily Record

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reversed a trial court’s decision to terminate a mother’s parental rights to her daughters. “We review these decisions closely because the termination of parental rights interferes with basic liberty: freedom from ...

How much information does your company require when hiring a new employee? Does your company consider using a background check as an additional source of information? Does your business make sure to verify past employment? How well does your company ...

A pair of construction contractors and the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations will face off in the Missouri Supreme Court after a Court of Appeals decision handed down on Tuesday issued a transfer. In its opinion, the Missouri ...

A customer who argued the sale of an automobile was not legitimate will receive $30,000 in punitive damages from the financial company after the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reversed and remanded a trial court’s decision to ...

It is hard to imagine that only a few years ago a chat with friends about buying online led to the inevitable, “I’ve bought books from Amazon.” Now, books generate only 3 percent of all U.S. online sales, verses 14 ...

Will Miranda warnings at the jailhouse cure a police officer’s earlier error of eliciting statements in violation of an indictee’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel? The U.S. Supreme Court side-stepped the question this week, remanding to let the 8th U.S. ...

After a full life in the legal and law enforcement sectors, former Circuit Attorney Edward L. Dowd succumbed to kidney and heart failure on Tuesday at the age of 85. “Ed Dowd was a vigorous, straight shooter as a circuit ...

When a new year begins is the perfect time to reflect on the changes that have occurred in the old year. In that vein, several Missouri attorneys listed what they thought were the most significant decisions handed down by appellate ...