The cellular phone industry’s leading trade organization, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (www.wow-com.com), is attempting to compile a list of cell phone numbers and user names to be utilized only by directory-assistance operators. This means that anyone may get in ...
Read More »Officials can limit rituals in prison
While Iowa State Penitentiary officials cannot ban the practice of an obscure religion circulating in prisons throughout the country, they can limit the extent of its rituals, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a partially reversed opinion ...
Read More »Court rules on Missouri's unclaimed property
When another state has unclaimed property in Missouri, it must do what regular people do: File the necessary paperwork to recover it. So advises the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, in the footnote of an opinion handed down on ...
Read More »Builders oppose senate draft
The National Association of Home Builders issued opposition Sunday evening to a legislation draft that would restructure the regulatory framework of the government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Bank System. The bill is currently ...
Read More »Polsinelli adds to St. Louis office
Polsinelli Shalton & Welte has added Julia N. Gwinn and Richard A. Voytas Jr. to its St. Louis office. Gwinn joins as an associate who will practice in the firm’s litigation department. Gwinn received her J.D. from Washington University School ...
Read More »Legal Leaders lunch approaches
The Daily Record’s Legal Leader’s of the Year award luncheon is less than two weeks away, but there is still time to purchase tickets for the event. Ten leaders from Kansas City’s legal community were chosen by a panel of ...
Read More »Error in defining 'fiduciary duty'
Instructions submitted to a jury allowed jurors to pick and choose the facts deciding a breach of fiduciary duty case, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday. In addition to the incorrect instructions, the appellate court also ...
Read More »Court rules mother and daughter must move
A daughter’s relationship with her father and her extended family is more beneficial to her than her mother’s opportunity for career advancement, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said Tuesday as it reversed a lower court’s decision to allow ...
Read More »Investors soon to be coming out of hibernation
Depending on any particular newspaper account or news broadcast, the economy is either still in a slump or on the road to recovery. The truth is with the moneylenders. Many investors took it in the shorts when the high-tech boom ...
Read More »Punitive damage award reversed in breach of contract
While Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City will have to pay $3 million in actual damages in a breach of contract dispute, they will not owe $3.09 million in punitive damages, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the ...
Read More »St. Louis City drug court holds 36th graduation ceremony
All the proud eyes of family members, friends and social workers were focused last Friday on the large group of graduates leaving the St. Louis City Adult Felony and Family Drug Courts during the court’s 36th commencement. Commissioner James E. ...
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