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Outsourcing jobs to workers in other countries isn’t just a private-sector issue anymore. It’s also a governmental concern. State Rep. Mark Abel, D-District 103, wants all state service contracts to require all contractor employees or subcontractor employees be citizens of ...

A company that transports physically and mentally handicapped individuals is liable for the injuries suffered by a woman who was thrown out of her seat in an accident because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The woman, Donna Bowan, was ...

Did the plaintiff inmate establish that a physician acted with deliberate indifference to his medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment? The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York addressed this issue in Rogers v. Morgan. ...

A circuit court did not err in overruling an objection to an attorney’s closing argument concerning the other counsel’s failure to call its own medical doctor as an expert. However, it did err in not including prejudgment interest because the ...

The Gateway Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators rang in its new year under new leadership last Wednesday during a monthly meeting held at Kemoll’s. During its induction ceremony, hosted by 15-year legal administration veteran and national ALA President-elect ...

Judge Robert G. Ulrich is back on the docket at the Court of Appeals for the Western District. In fact, he never left town. Earlier this month, The Daily Record reported Judge Ulrich would be going to Iraq as part ...

Slipping on a patch of ice may lead to injury but may not always translate to an award for damages, held the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday, affirming a jury’s finding that the garage owners were not ...

A trial court went against the evidence in returning driving privileges to a man who drove with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.179 percent, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District ruled on Tuesday. The driver, Kyle Melvin, was receiving ...

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law and the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources are seeking nominations for the 2004 Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy. The award recognizes individuals, organizations or programs ...

In a precedence setting case, the Western District Court of Appeals tackled the sensitive issue of division of marital property. In the case, Joseph Lamar Clance, Jr., Appellant, v. Lourdes Maria Clance, Respondent, the COA reversed the decision of the ...

Legal Services Corp. will no longer seek to reconfigure the delivery system of legal services to the poor in Missouri under one statewide corporation. Instead, the national corporation will continue to fund the four programs that provide legal services in ...