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A quadriplegic Kansas City Public Schools guidance counselor was awarded $806,075 in damages Wednesday following an eight-day disability discrimination trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. The jury awarded plaintiff Joseph D. Baldridge $230,000 in compensatory damages and $576,075 in punitive ...

A St. Joseph attorney received a reprimand from the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday in connection with a 2014 domestic assault conviction. John M. Spencer, 43, of Tieman, Spencer & Hicks pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of third degree ...

A dispute over a broken contract led to a $1.479 million jury verdict Tuesday for a North Kansas City company. The plaintiff, Info-Data Services Inc., is a data management services company, according to court records. Since about 2000, it contracted ...

The 16th Judicial Circuit won a defense verdict Monday in the case of a retired court employee who had accused court officials of age discrimination. A Jackson County jury found in favor of the court over plaintiff Gary Hartman, who ...

Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of a retired court employee accusing the 16th Judicial Circuit of age discrimination. Attorneys made their closing arguments Monday following a six-day trial. Tom Porto of The Popham Law Firm in Kansas City ...

An open judge position on the 16th Circuit will remain a specialized one. The circuit’s judges agreed Friday at their monthly court en banc meeting to keep the Division 19 judgeship focused on probate. The position opened with the resignation ...

A former Kansas City attorney has admitted to taking more than $1.2 million from St. Luke’s Health System. Alan B. Gallas, 64, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to mail fraud. Gallas ...

A longtime Jackson County courts employee is alleging his employer discriminated against him when it hired a younger candidate to oversee the county’s Department of Civil Process. Gary Hartman, execution deputy for the department for 17 years, sued the 16th ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Kansas man was not required by a federal sex offender registration law to update his registration when he left his home for the Philippines. The ruling clears up a circuit split created ...

Incubators and nonprofit law firms expanding access to legal services were the focus of a two-day conference that kicked off Friday at the University of Missouri — Kansas City School of Law. This marks the third year of the annual ...

An employee suit against health information tech giant Cerner over overtime will proceed following a judge’s approval for conditional collective action certification. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. granted a motion for Fair Labor Standards Act, or ...