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The Eastern District Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a $1.5 million jury verdict for a man who was injured in 2012 while riding a human gyroscope at an underground entertainment complex in Crystal City. On Tuesday, the Eastern District panel ...

A Lebanon air-conditioning compressor manufacturer will not be able to present evidence or witnesses during a five-day trial set to begin March 26, after a judge found the company’s former lawyers engaged in a pattern of repeated discovery abuses. The ...

A St. Louis County judge has ordered the creation of a waitlist for new indigent clients in need of public defender services after determining that several of the county’s public defenders are unable to ethically take on new cases. In ...

A federal judge in Kansas City has sentenced a Liberty attorney who was convicted of stealing victim restitution funds to just over three years in federal prison. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips sentenced Robert J. Young II, 48, ...

A Kansas City law firm played a key role in securing a $35 million jury verdict for an Indiana couple in their suit against Johnson & Johnson and its subdivision Ethicon for alleged injuries stemming from the implantation of their ...

Drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated in Missouri do not have the right to confer privately with an attorney about the merits of taking a chemical test, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The split 2-1 ruling came ...

A convicted murderer may bring a lawsuit against his attorney for breach of contract, according to a new Western District Court of Appeals ruling that appears to forge new ground in Missouri. A three-judge panel unanimously found that a claim ...

A long-running lawsuit over allegations of underpayments to beneficiaries of the state’s Blind Pension Fund has settled for $21 million. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced the settlement Thursday. “This issue has been drawn out for over 10 years, and ...

A Clay County jury awarded the family of a man crushed by machinery while dropping off Ford F-150 seats at the Ford Motor Co.’s Claycomo plant a $76 million verdict on Feb. 23. The plaintiffs were the survivors of David ...

An inquiry to determine if recordings of attorney-client conversations made at a Kansas detention center violated inmates’ rights will continue, although in a more limited manner, following a federal appeals court ruling Monday. A three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit accusing a St. Louis building inspector of conducting an unreasonable search when he searched a home deemed to be a nuisance for code violations. On Thursday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court ...