Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed three members to the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators. Nixon said Wednesday the newly filled nine-member board now can select a new president after student protests led to the former president’s ouster last ...
Read More »Court affirms market owner’s conviction for sales of fake goods
A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a constitutional challenge from a St. Louis County flea market operator convicted of allowing vendors to sell counterfeit goods on his property. Jack Frison Sr. was convicted in 2014 following a raid on ...
Read More »Panel named for Western District judgeship
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. ...
Read More »Supreme Court limits co-worker liability suits
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 ...
Read More »Planned Parenthood seeks to block Medicaid cutoff in Kansas
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 ...
Read More »Court crafts ‘roadmap’ to keep polls open late
Long lines, no. Ballot shortages, yes. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District issued an opinion on Tuesday explaining its hastily issued order on April 5 for some St. Louis County polling places to remain open late after they’d run ...
Read More »Corps: Giving it contaminated landfill would not speed fix
Efforts to resolve a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste will not be hastened if oversight of the project is shifted from federal environmentalists to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a top Corps official has argued. ...
Read More »St. Louis police pay $4.7 million for 44 settlements
The city of St. Louis has paid $4.7 million to settle 44 cases involving police filed since 2010 over injuries, wrongful imprisonment or death, according to a newspaper review of payouts that had not previously been publicized. Two of the ...
Read More »St. Louis police officer sues again after winning lawsuit
A white St. Louis police sergeant who won nearly $800,000 in a racial discrimination suit has filed another lawsuit claiming he’s been retaliated against for his earlier win in court. Sgt. David Bonenberger, who has been with the department for ...
Read More »Streetcars en vogue, but study urges use beyond tourists
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 ...
Read More »Appeals court looks at personhood of frozen embryos
Whether a frozen embryo should be considered a person is at the heart of a case the Eastern District Court of Appeals heard on Wednesday. A St. Louis County circuit court in October ruled that Justin Gadberry and Jalesia McQueen’s ...
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