After observing his whirlwind, extemporaneous 2008-09 Supreme Court Term Review Thursday, few could argue that Erwin Chemerinsky isn't "one of the brightest leading lights in the legal community today." That's the description 10th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Deanell Reece Tacha offered in introducing Chemerinsky, the speaker at a UMKC School of Law event. Pictured is Chemerinsky greeting Tacha.
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Read More »The economy may return to health and resemble the one preceding the 2008-09 recession, but don’t be fooled, Association of Corporate Counsel’s Susan Hackett says. For big business, corporate counsels and the law firms that serve them, there will be ...
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Read More »Three insurance companies have agreed to settlements totaling $15 million as the result of a class action suit alleging that poor actuarial work resulted in “fraudulent concealment of future rate increases” for 1,669 Missouri policyholders. The class-action lawsuit, filed in ...
Read More »With free legal services already at capacity, people in disputes who seek services elsewhere may be rejected, fall between the cracks or simply find themselves in a revolving door as they’re referred from one agency to another. Last week, Kansas ...
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Read More »Guantanamo detainees, death-row prisoners and Katrina victims share a bond that a noted attorney thinks reflects a malaise at the heart of the nation's psyche. John Adams Project defense attorney Denny LeBoeuf, keynote speaker for Thursday's Death Penalty Symposium at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, previewed the program Wednesday in delivering the Joseph Cohen Lecture. LeBoeuf summarizes her thesis this way: Guantanamo, the death penalty and Katrina are made from a single cloth woven by color, class and, in the case of "War on Terror" detainees, religion and ethnicity.
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Read More »Kelly Caine, the father of a girl who died in a December 2006 house fire in Bates County, declined Tuesday to agree to a settlement proposed before a hearing at the Jackson County Court Annex in Independence. Caine drove all ...
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Read More »The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a circuit court’s guilty finding Tuesday in the case of a Kansas City man serving life in prison without parole for a 2004 shooting death. The appeal stemmed from a 2006 jury ...
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Read More »A Jackson County jury awarded a developmentally disabled man a total of $300,000 in damages on Friday in a civil case stemming from a struggle with Kansas City police that took place in 2003. The award for plaintiff Darrell Sterling ...
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Read More »Peggy Stevens McGraw, former presiding judge of the 16th Circuit, knows the nature of work that will occupy Stephen Nixon, her successor. “I sign a lot of things,” McGraw said, making light of the position’s administrative emphasis. Nixon assumed McGraw’s ...
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