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The Crystal City Board of Education had the right to terminate the employment of a teacher who said, during class, that couples of different races should not marry and, if they did marry, that they should not have children. The ...

An employee’s post-termination conduct is relevant to whether front pay is available on a sexual harassment verdict, a divided panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday, vacating a $638,000 front-pay award and remanding for a ...

Despite the fact a trial did not find a pattern of domestic violence in a marriage dissolution, it erred in failing to make findings pursuant to a Missouri statute that the custody arrangement ordered by the court best protects the ...

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School Professor Ellen Suni was honored at the Diastole Wednesday night with the Marvin Lewis Rich Faculty Scholar award. The award is in honor and in memory of former Kansas City- attorney, Marvin Rich for ...

While financial fraud may be painful on the wallet, it does not amount to a personal injury covered by the Missouri Tort Victims’ Compensation Fund, ruled a unanimous panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday. After ...

Keeping in line with several courts across the country, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled on Wednesday that a Ten Commandments monument located in a city park is a violation of the Establishment Clause of ...

Eleven years following the enactment of the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers and employees are struggling with its interpretation, and the legislation is under scrutiny for its lack of clarity. Under the FMLA, small businesses with more than ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if a state agency could provide a mechanism to assist in the funding of not-for-profit corporations and, in the process, help small startup businesses grow and prosper without any direct allocation of state revenues? Consider it ...

A couple who purchased an estate and later found an underground heating oil tank buried on the property will have a chance to return to the circuit court for further proceedings on claims against the conservator of the estate individually ...

A Guatemalan woman who was gang raped in her native country has been denied humanitarian asylum in the United States by a divided panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The two-judge majority held that Vilma Menendez-Donis did ...

Armstrong Teasdale L.L.P. has elected Anita M. Kidd and Robert D. Klahr partners in its law firm. Kidd, a member of the firm’s litigation department, practices in the areas of medical professional liability and asbestos litigation. She is a member ...