The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District reinstated an armed criminal action conviction against a teenager who ran over a woman and her baby while driving drunk. The court on Tuesday found that the lifted pickup truck defendant Andrew Trae ...
Read More »Collateral source bill heads to governor
On the second-to-last day of the legislative session, the Missouri House passed a tort change that had been a Republican priority since before the session began. The Missouri House on Thursday voted 98-53 to give final approval to a bill ...
Read More »Appeal puts so-called ‘America’s courtroom’ on trial
A $38 million jury award from St. Louis has become the latest target in a raging fight over out-of-state plaintiffs who sue out-of-state defendants in the city of St. Louis. Attorneys for the drug maker Abbott Laboratories went before the ...
Read More »State budget includes raises for some clerks
Some Missouri court employees will see raises as a result of the $27.7 billion state operating budget approved on Thursday. But the court system will have less control over its budget. The budget for fiscal year that begins in July ...
Read More »Execution set for Marcellus Williams
The Missouri Supreme Court has set an Aug. 22 execution date for Marcellus Williams. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 stabbing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter, in St. Louis County. He was initially set ...
Read More »Powell named to Missouri Supreme Court
Brent Powell, currently a circuit judge in Jackson County, will be the Missouri Supreme Court’s newest judge. Gov. Eric Greitens announced Powell on Tuesday as his first appointee to the state’s highest court, filling a vacancy left by the death ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court overturns Missouri insurance ruling
Despite two wins before the Missouri Supreme Court, a class action lawsuit in St. Louis County likely is over following a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Federal Employee Health Benefits Act, or FEHBA, allows insurers for ...
Read More »Supreme Court suspends Taney County judge
The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a one-month suspension without pay for a Taney County circuit judge for wrongfully closing hearings to the public in a probate case. In an order issued Tuesday, the court said Taney County Circuit Judge ...
Read More »Court affirms woman’s conviction for baby’s death
A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the conviction of a woman whose baby’s body was hidden in concrete after he died of a methamphetamine overdose shortly after he was born secretly at home. The Court of Appeals Western District ...
Read More »Governor signs expert witness bill
Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday signed a bill into law that heightens the standards for Missouri courts to admit expert testimony. The bill, which will go into effect Aug. 28, would require Missouri courts to follow the so-called Daubert standard, ...
Read More »Expert witness bill heads to governor’s desk
With a 21-11 vote on Wednesday evening, the Missouri Senate sent the session’s first major change to tort law to the governor’s desk. The Senate gave final approval to a bill that overhauls the standards for courts to admit expert ...
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