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A web reporter shut out of remotely covering a major Jackson County trial has hired an attorney and filed a motion to regain access to a pool camera feed. Jim Griffin of Scharnhorst Ast Kennard Griffin in Kansas City filed ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision to disqualify an attorney from representing three clients in grand jury proceedings. According to the opinion, written by Judge Steven M. Colloton and released Monday, the decision stemmed from a ...

An insurance company is not on the hook for an insurance claim tied to a policyholder’s alleged suicide attempt, according to a recent appeals court ruling. On Dec. 15, the Western District Court of Appeals issued an opinion affirming a ...

The 16th Circuit Court has elected Judge John Torrence to be its next presiding judge. Judge Robert Schieber nominated Torrence to take on the role for a 2017-2018 term, following Judge Justine Del Muro in the role. He is currently ...

UPDATED A Jackson County judge has ordered a Nashville, Tennessee-based hospital company to pay a Kansas City foundation $433.7 million. The judgment, filed Wednesday afternoon by Judge John Torrence, covers unmet obligations as part of a purchase of non-profit hospitals. ...

An appeals court reversed a federal court decision that had limited the scope of a Missouri technical college’s drug testing policy. On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in favor of Linn State Technical College, ...

An October decision against reappointing a longtime Jackson County official divided the 16th Circuit Court, public records show. Sixteen of 26 judges voted in closed session against reappointing Rebbecca Lake Wood, the county’s public administrator, to her fifth term. The ...

Longtime Jackson County Public Administrator Rebbecca Lake Wood spoke out on Wednesday against the secretive process used by 16th Judicial Circuit judges leading up to their vote to decline her reappointment her to a fifth term in office. Wood said ...

Four Missouri-based firms have received the top rating in an annual scorecard that evaluates companies on LGBT equality. Armstrong Teasdale, of St. Louis; Bryan Cave, of St. Louis; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, of Kansas City; and Thompson Coburn, of St. ...

A Winston couple is appealing a Clay County circuit judge’s 2014 judgment in favor of their insurer on whether the company was responsible for covering damage to property by a suicide attempt. Before the Western District Court of Appeals on ...

In the shadow of Kansas City’s former Hyatt Regency Hotel, a new sculpture rises from the earth at Hospital Hill Park. The 24-foot tall structure stands in memory of the victims, survivors and emergency personnel who responded to one of ...