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It only took a Jackson County jury 28 minutes to award a group representing Missouri soybean farmers $602,945 in their case against a company they said failed to disclose seed sales and fully pay royalties. The decision Wednesday wrapped up ...

A man with preexisting hearing loss, who was injured in a work-related accident, was entitled to benefits from the Second Injury Fund, the Missouri Court of Appeals has held. The Western District found that the man’s bilateral hearing loss was ...

The names of two Jackson County probate commissioners and a former deputy county counselor will be sent to the governor for consideration for a circuit judgeship in Division 19. Lisa Noel Gentleman, former managing attorney of Legal Aid of Western ...

Madeleine McDonough, named on Monday as the chair-elect of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, has had plenty of time to think about the direction the firm should be headed. McDonough, who will be the first woman to lead the Kansas City-based ...

A man who was injured after his vehicle was struck by a suspect pursued by Kansas City police received a $1 million jury verdict Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court. Nine of 12 jurors found in favor of plaintiff Antoine ...

Four applicants are seeking to replace Jackson County Circuit Judge Kathleen A. Forsyth in Division 19 following her retirement in July. The 16th Circuit Judicial Commission released the interviewee list and demographics information Thursday. The applicants are Lisa Noel Gentleman, ...

The Appellate Judicial Commission on Tuesday selected the Missouri governor’s top lawyer, a Jackson County circuit judge and a Kansas City attorney as finalists for a vacancy on the Court of Appeals Western Distract. Edward R. “Ted” Ardini Jr., W. ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday crafted a new understanding of when injured workers can file lawsuits against co-employees who cause an on-the-job injury. In a pair of opinions handed down more than a year after hearing arguments, the Supreme ...

Planned Parenthood attorneys are asking a federal judge to prevent Kansas from cutting off Medicaid funding for the organization, arguing that the state is attempting to punish its affiliates for providing abortions. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson was having a ...

As Oklahoma City prepares to break ground on its first streetcar line in seven decades, and as other cities adjust to having them again, authors of a federally backed study suggest their routes move people with a purpose — not ...

The Jackson County Legislature has approved a $50,000 settlement with a woman who sued the county over the use of shackles during pregnancy and labor while in the custody of the Jackson County Detention Center. Brenda Hill, a spokeswoman for ...