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A Jackson County judge threw out a $150,000 jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City lawyer, saying too much time had expired since he did the work for which he was seeking compensation. Philip Koppe won the verdict in ...

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Workers whose injuries are no longer addressed by the workers’ compensation system have the right to sue their employers for recovery, a splintered Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision, almost 15 months in the making, answered a lawsuit that ...

Tagged with: apology Matt Blunt Missouri Supreme Court Workers' compensation

Stinson Morrison Hecker elects four partners in K.C. Stinson Morrison Hecker elected of four new partners in its Kansas City office. Jack Bowling advises publicly- and privately-held companies with respect to capital formation, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, securities law compliance and ...

Tagged with: Bradley J. Yeretsky Christopher R. Jones J. Kyle McCurry Jack Bowling Jay Nixon Sharon Williams Shook Hardy & Bacon Stinson Morrison Hecker

After nearly eight years of legal wrangling, Wal-Mart and attorneys for a class action wage lawsuit in Missouri have reached a $90 million settlement. Under the terms of the preliminarily approved agreement, which Jackson County Circuit Judge Sandra Midkiff unsealed ...

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Municipal judges in Kansas City are part of the state’s 16th Judicial Circuit, but their paychecks come from the city. They are selected through a system very similar to Missouri’s Nonpartisan Court Plan, but the Kansas City Council makes the ...

Tagged with: Clay County Kansas City Council Melissa Howard Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Missouri Human Rights Act municipal judges Nonpartisan Court Plan Patricia Cohen Platte County Vic Howard

John Wood, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced his resignation Wednesday afternoon. Wood, who has been at the post less than two years, has accepted a position as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of ...

Tagged with: Bradley Schlozman George W. Bush Hughes Hubbard & Reed John Wood resignation U.S. Attorney voter fraud Wall Street Western District of Missouri

Almost six years after a fiery crash on Interstate 70 killed a state trooper and severely injured another driver, lawyers for the victims asked the Missouri Supreme Court to let them take another crack at the maker of the car ...

Tagged with: Ann Covington Edward "Chip" Robertson Ford Motor Co. Michael Newton Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Missouri Supreme Court

Kansas City’s federal immigration court hasn’t yet brought in its first live judge, but it’s already been the focal point of a protest. The Immigration Justice Advocacy Movement, a faith-based group in Kansas City, held a prayer vigil Monday in ...

Tagged with: Angela Ferguson Department of Justice Florentino Camacho immigration court Jackson County Jerry Nolte John O'Malley

One word. Well into a scathing opinion that threw out the guilty plea of a man accused of abandoning his girlfriend’s corpse, Jackson County Judge Edith Messina took a moment to marvel at how what she called a “fraud upon ...

Tagged with: Edith Messina fraud upon the trial court Jackson County Jim Kanatzer John Turner Matthew Davis Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Patrick Peters Peters & Peters

The 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team report honors four attorneys in Kansas City. Included in the 176-attorney list are Edward R. Spalty, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale; Rick E. Frawley, an associate with Bryan Cave; William E. Corum, a ...

Tagged with: 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team Armstrong Teasdale Bruce Baty Bryan Cave BTI Consulting Group Edward Spalty Husck Blackwell Sanders Kansas City Rick Frawley Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal William Corum

A federal judge allowed key allegations to go forward in an excessive force lawsuit against several Kansas City Police Department officers. Judge Ortrie D. Smith on Tuesday denied summary judgment on excessive force and assault and battery claims against two ...

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