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A quadriplegic Kansas City Public Schools guidance counselor was awarded $806,075 in damages Wednesday following an eight-day disability discrimination trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. The jury awarded plaintiff Joseph D. Baldridge $230,000 in compensatory damages and $576,075 in punitive ...

An appeals court on Tuesday threw out a challenge to a $3 fee that some municipal courts object to collecting. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said the group of city officials who filed the suit don’t have standing ...

The Missouri Senate on Monday agreed to a requirement for people to show photo identification when voting, ending almost a month of Democratic attempts to block the legislation and clearing a path for it to pass the Legislature. Republicans agreed ...

One of Missouri’s largest law firms is getting bigger. Husch Blackwell announced Friday that it is merging with one of Wisconsin’s biggest law firms. The combination with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, a 140-lawyer firm based in Milwaukee, is effective July 1. ...

Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday said he hasn’t decided what action he would take on two bills passed this week that would make changes to tort law. “Anything that changes hundreds of years of law requires a very tight look ...

The Missouri House gave final approval on Wednesday to an overhaul of the standards for courts to admit expert testimony. The bill, passed 85-68, would require Missouri courts to follow the so-called Daubert standard, named for the 1993 U.S. Supreme ...

A dispute over a broken contract led to a $1.479 million jury verdict Tuesday for a North Kansas City company. The plaintiff, Info-Data Services Inc., is a data management services company, according to court records. Since about 2000, it contracted ...

Missouri lawmakers appear uninterested in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to reduce the business “border war” between the two states. Brownback last week offered to lessen his state’s efforts to lure jobs away from the Missouri side of the Kansas ...

Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill redefining adequate K-12 school funding so the state can spend hundreds of millions of dollars less but still meet the target for fully funding schools. The House voted 116-38 Tuesday to send the ...

  Lee’s Summit attorney and former Missouri legislator Dennis Bonner received an interim license suspension Friday for misappropriating client funds as well as more than $55,000 in third party funds. According to the discipline file, Bonner had multiple incidents involving ...

The 16th Judicial Circuit won a defense verdict Monday in the case of a retired court employee who had accused court officials of age discrimination. A Jackson County jury found in favor of the court over plaintiff Gary Hartman, who ...