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A Jackson County judge issued a sharply worded opinion that threw out a man’s 22-year criminal sentence and said the county prosecutor’s office “perpetrated a fraud upon the trial court” for withholding evidence in the case. Judge Edith Messina set ...

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A Missouri appeals court denied a legal challenge to November's casino ballot measure - three months after voters approved it. The ballot item, known as Proposition A, was challenged in court in August 2008. The trial court dismissed some of the allegations and ruled against the challengers' other claims. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District - which didn't hear the case until 16 days after the Nov. 4 election - affirmed those decisions. Attorney Robert Buckley, pictured, headed the appeal.

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A Kansas City doctor won a jury verdict Friday on claims that his employer tried to classify him as an independent contractor to save on health costs. The jury returned two verdicts of $406,072 and $300,000 for Dr. Stanley Brand, ...

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It’s hard to think of a front-end car crash as safe, but drivers in such accidents at least have the airbag to stop them. In a rear-end crash, all that stands between occupants and harm is the back of the ...

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A federal grand jury added new charges on Wednesday against a woman accused of staging an attack to bolster a civil lawsuit and the man she allegedly hired to carry out the attack. In a federal complaint filed last month, ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday upheld a $1 million jury verdict from 2007, clarifying a novel question of bad-faith tort law along the way. Quinlock Shobe won $500,000 in actual damages and another $500,000 in punitives ...

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The bad economy apparently made no difference to a Jackson County jury that awarded a woman $2.5 million late last week. The award to Adrienne Garrison Wayman, of Grain Valley, compensates her for injuries she suffered in a 2005 accident ...

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Davidson to be honored at LEAP luncheon Bruce C. Davison, of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, will receive the President’s Award at the 15th Annual Mardi Gras Luncheon for Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance. The Feb. 24 event also honors LEAP’s 2009 ...

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A Kansas City attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court that a circuit judge’s changes to his suggested jury instructions had “gutted” the theory under which he was trying to win. Bill Pickett, a solo practitioner, argued to the court on ...

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A state appeals court said a man can receive his wife’s disability benefits for the rest of his life, despite the state Legislature’s explicit rejection of a Missouri Supreme Court decision allowing such payments. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western ...

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It's always nice to win a civil lawsuit. But the measures two women in Kansas City allegedly took to tip the balance in their favor are now the subject of a federal criminal investigation. In an affidavit released last week, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City said a reported attack and sexual assault on the women in November was concocted to force a larger settlement in a sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit against their former employer. The women claimed they were assaulted in this garage in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City.

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