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An appeals court has struck down a rule allowing the Missouri Public Defender Commission to stop taking certain cases to reduce its offices’ workloads. The demise of the rule places additional importance on a bill pending in the Missouri Legislature ...

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Grover Glenn Hankins, a former president of the Jackson County Bar Association and later general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died April 4 in Houston. He was 68. Hankins was an assistant U.S. attorney ...

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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sued a company he said defrauded people seeking mortgage relief. The suit, filed Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, alleges that Orange, Calif.-based U.S. Foreclosure Relief Corp., also known as Lighthouse Services, violated the ...

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The city of St. Joseph has agreed not to enforce an ordinance prohibiting protests at funerals, pending the outcome of a related lawsuit against a similar state statute. The city’s ordinance was passed in response to Westboro Baptist Church’s protest ...

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A lawsuit filed Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court claims police had a “vendetta” against a man they shot during an arrest three years ago. Anthony Champion, 18, died March 28, 2006, after police shot him while trying to arrest ...

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Medical information  is a private affair, until a patient sues over an  injury.  At that point, medical records and even the statements of treating physicians become relevant. On Thursday, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District heard a case that ...

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Some laws and ordinances are essentially thrown against the courthouse wall to see if they'll stick. Such was not the case with an adult-business ordinance in Jackson County upheld Tuesday in federal court.

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Missouri appeals courts usually keep their opinions short and sweet, but a decision from the Eastern District on Tuesday took a little more space. As a result, the plaintiff’s attorney in the case will get $17,000 in additional fees. The ...

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The siblings of a man who died in police custody last year have sued the Kansas City Police Department, saying officers failed to care for their brother after he swallowed drugs during his arrest. The suit stemmed from the June ...

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The parents of the only Missouri highway worker killed in Kansas City last year have sued the trucking company and driver involved in the fatal accident. Michael York died June 11 when a semi truck hit him as he was ...

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A Kansas City jury returned defense verdicts on Friday in a medical malpractice trial, dashing a man’s claim that his heart surgery caused him to have a stroke. Michael Boydston sued Dr. Michael Borkon and Mid America Heart and Lung ...

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