A Missouri student who received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration status is ineligible for in-district tuition, the Eastern District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In the 2-1 opinion, the court affirmed a lower court ruling that the student, identified ...
Read More »Attorney sentenced for $1.2M hospital fraud scheme
A Lake Lotawana attorney who pleaded guilty in February to conspiring to defraud St. Luke’s Health System of $1.2 million with his former law partner has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison without parole. Mark J. ...
Read More »KC man sentenced for judge death threats
A Kansas City man incarcerated in Indiana will serve more time for sending death threats to three senior judges from the Western District of Missouri and their families. Bruce DeWayne Jensen, 40, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison ...
Read More »Civil rights claim against P&L developer revived
A man’s claim that the developer of Kansas City’s Power & Light entertainment district took part in racially-discriminatory tactics to exclude black patrons will proceed to trial following a ruling Wednesday by a federal appeals court. A panel of the ...
Read More »Man’s Batson challenge succeeds on appeal
The state’s decision to strike an African-American woman from a jury panel in a drug distribution case was not race neutral, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel unanimously reversed and remanded the case of Lawrence ...
Read More »Four charged with corruption at Jackson County jail
Four people, including two corrections officers, have been charged with participating in a bribery scheme to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center. The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri ...
Read More »8th Circuit affirms $1.3M verdict for inmate’s death
A federal appeals court has affirmed a $1.3 million verdict for the family of an inmate who died while in the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Jimmy Lee Letterman and Annette Fay Letterman brought the suit against officers ...
Read More »Employer can’t demand employee’s withdrawal of order of protection
An employer may not demand that an employee withdraw an order of protection as a condition of continued employment, the Eastern District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. “We find that such an action violates the public policy exception to the ...
Read More »Commission selects 16th Circuit judge finalists
A field of 22 applicants for two Jackson County Circuit judgeships narrowed to three Tuesday, following a full day of interviews Monday in Kansas City. The 16th Judicial Circuit Commission selected Justin J. Kalwei, Jalilah Otto and George E. Wolf ...
Read More »Panel hears transgender bathroom access appeal
A case that could flesh out protections for transgender persons under the Missouri Human Rights Act is now under consideration by the Western District Court of Appeals. On Wednesday, a panel heard oral arguments in the case of R.M.A., a ...
Read More »Defense verdict in eye injury case upheld
A woman’s medical malpractice suit over an eye injury will not go to trial a third time, following a ruling Tuesday in the Eastern District Court of Appeals. The court affirmed a 2015 defense verdict for Pepose Vision Institute in ...
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