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No one saw who started the Halloween scuffle that ended in an alleged murder, which is why Ronnie D. Gonzales will have another opportunity to prove he acted in self-defense, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, ruled on Tuesday. ...

The general elections are almost six months away, but Missouri’s lawyers are already making decisions about judges whose names will appear on the November general election ballot. Lawyers across the state are in the midst of evaluating the performances of ...

By Paul Mark Sandler Special to The Daily Record

Do your homework was the lesson presented to attorneys in the educational session on expert witnesses at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Bench-Bar conference. Between Frye v. United States, 293 F.1013 (D.C. Cir.1923) and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, ...

In spite of mortgage rate increases during the first quarter, that were preceded with warnings of a real estate bubble bursting, builders, lenders and sellers of new and existing homes contend their business is still solid. “I think a lot ...

About 100 students from Riverview Gardens High School and Hillsboro High School found themselves in court on Friday. They were guests of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, which put together a program that focused on ...

Marital Property means all property acquired subsequent to the marriage except gifts, exchanges, after legal separation, or by written agreement. That is the point the Western District Court of Appeals tried to emphasize when they reversed and remanded the case ...

A federal trial court was too lenient on a Pittsburg, Kan., business owner who was found guilty of conspiring to commit bank fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud. Although defendant Phillip O’Malley should have received a sentence of between 24 ...

The case of the man who robbed and murdered an elderly couple from DeSoto is now before the Missouri Supreme Court for the third time since his 1998 conviction. Last week, Rosemary E. Percival, an assistant public defender in the ...

Law Day is an annual celebration of the rule of law. The founder of Law Day, the late ABA President Charles S. Rhyne, introduced the idea of a day specially set aside to demonstrate that “respect for the rule of ...

Spirtas Company was wrongly granted compensation for construction work not performed the Western District Court of Appeals decided last week. The COA reversed and remanded the trial court’s decision to grant Spirtas’s motion for summary judgment and to award them ...