Following a long procedural detour, a lawsuit between the city of Kansas City and a local apartment complex is heading back to Jackson County Circuit Court.
Read More »Billboard ordinance challenge shot down
A digital billboard owned by the Lamar Company sits along Interstate 35 north of Kansas City. Such billboards are banned within Kansas City.
Read More »Salary commission expected to begin work
Though their recommendations could fall on deaf ears, a commission to weigh pay raises for state officials is expected to begin work shortly.
Read More »Kobach wins as Kansas secretary of state
Kris Kobach, a lawyer who has made his reputation as a foe of illegal immigration, will be Kansas’ next secretary of state, but he will no longer be a law professor.
Read More »As voters have say, court stays silent
For the first time in six years, the Missouri Supreme Court has had nothing to say on Election Day.
Read More »Appeals court OKs closure of jury selection
In a carefully hedged opinion, a Missouri appeals court has upheld a trial judge’s decision to exclude the public from jury selection in a criminal case.
Read More »Boundary spat heads back to court
The Missouri Supreme Court says the city of Lake Saint Louis needs no help in taking its neighbor O’Fallon to court.
Read More »State wants to blunt $150K judgment
Almost four years after former Gov. Matt Blunt, left, dipped Missouri’s toes into the national immigration reform debate, the issue is still kicking around the court system.
Read More »High court to weigh traffic stop searches
The Missouri Supreme Court has agreed to hear an issue that has split the state’s appellate courts: Can police officers take the U.S. Supreme Court at its word?
Read More »Supreme Court upholds sheriffs’ surcharge
Sheriff’s Deputy Shuan Gray works in St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Paula Bryant’s courtroom in June during a busy docket. The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a $10 fee that goes into a state fund to help increase the salaries of deputy sheriffs across the state.
Read More »‘Smoking police’? Not quite, court says
Kansas City health inspectors can ask for ID and issue citations, but that doesn’t make them police officers, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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