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A split Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is inherent to the right to speak to an attorney in the context of drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated, a matter of first impression in Missouri. On Tuesday, the court ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the sex-discrimination claims of a gay man in his suit against the state’s commission on human rights and a transgender teen seeking access to school facilities that align with his gender identity. One ...

The Kansas Supreme Court has suspended for at least three years the license of a Kansas City-area attorney after finding she violated ethics laws in her representation of an elderly couple and a man in an employment lawsuit. On Feb. ...

Missouri will receive slightly more than $5.6 million as part of a multistate settlement with Wells Fargo Bank to resolve claims that the bank violated state consumer-protection laws, according to Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. Hawley announced the settlement Dec. ...

A Jackson County judge on Tuesday awarded $525,449 in front pay to a woman who alleged in a lawsuit that Centene Corp. and AcariaHealth Pharmacy Inc. fired her for refusing to unlawfully submit Medicaid services for reimbursement, bringing her total ...

A Jackson County judge has given final approval to a $250,000 settlement to end a class-action lawsuit against Rockhurst University stemming from a 2016 data breach. On Nov. 16, Circuit Judge Kevin D. Harrell approved the settlement in a suit ...

A federal judge has given final approval to a $24,720,000 settlement for southern Missouri landowners who sued an electric cooperative and its telecommunications business alleging the misuse of utility easements. U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey approved the final settlement ...

A Clay County jury has awarded an Excelsior Springs man $11 million in his bad-faith suit against American Family Insurance Co. The jury returned the verdict Nov. 8 following a four-day trial. The jury unanimously awarded Paul Skow $1 million ...

A federal judge has approved $433,791 in attorneys’ fees and expenses in the case of a Columbia church whose suit against the state of Missouri went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017. In an order issued Nov. 7, U.S. ...

The Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a $10.2 million judgment against Kansas City for the city’s 2010 decision to end a trash-rebate program that had been in place since the 1970s, in violation of an agreement between ...

A judge has denied the Jackson County district defender’s request that a new judge hear her office’s concerns about public-defender caseloads. On Tuesday, Judge David M. Byrn issued an order in which he found Presiding Judge John Torrence’s September comments ...