Randall Palen flies home free as a result of a Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, decision that reversed and remanded a Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court decision. Air Evac, EMS Inc., an air ambulance company designed to help rural ...
Read More »Bankruptcy Cases Hit New High Nationwide
The number of bankruptcies across the nation has hit an all-time high, according to a report released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2003 bankruptcy filings in federal courts reached over ...
Read More »Study: Law School Debt Keeps Many From Public Service Jobs
In a day and age when higher education tuition payments exponentially outpace cost-of-living increases, lower-paying public service jobs look less and less attractive to recent graduates, and the legal profession is no exception. In fact, the situation has become such ...
Read More »Credibility Of Witness Left To Jury's Discretion
The Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri affirmed the case of a patient who sustained further damage to his neck after a surgery intended to repair his original injury. The Circuit Court of Boone County heard the ...
Read More »The Beginning Of A New Era In Assisted Living
With a turning of the earth an estimated 75 participants witnessed the groundbreaking for the first in a planned series of group homes for physically challenged adults. Those present also participated in what electrical engineer turned developer Tim Perry hopes ...
Read More »Transfer Not ADA Violation
A woman currently on long-term disability leave from Target Corp. for depression has failed in her disability discrimination claim against her employer. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the company’s decision not to transfer employee Lynn Burchett to ...
Read More »COA Reverses Decision In Amended Agreement Dispute
Thanks to a Tennessee law governing interpretation of contracts, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, reversed and remanded the findings of the St. Louis County Circuit Court Wednesday involving $300,000 and two development companies’ dispute over an amendment agreement. ...
Read More »Richard Files Missed By Many
Richard Lloyd Files, husband of Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation Executive Director Bobbie Lou Nailling Files, passed away unexpectedly in his home last Wednesday. Files, 62, a former actuary from Lewis & Ellis Inc. retired in 2000. Files was also ...
Read More »COA Reverses Decision In Amended Agreement Dispute (498)
Thanks to a Tennessee law governing interpretation of contracts, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, reversed and remanded the findings of the St. Louis County Circuit Court Wednesday involving $300,000 and two development companies’ dispute over an amendment agreement. ...
Read More »Richard Files Missed By Many (499)
Richard Lloyd Files, husband of Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation Executive Director Bobbie Lou Nailling Files, passed away unexpectedly in his home last Wednesday. Files, 62, a former actuary from Lewis & Ellis Inc. retired in 2000. Files was also ...
Read More »Jackson County Employees Recognized By Governor
Over 90 state employees, including four Jackson County Family Court employees, were presented with the Governor’s Award for Quality and Productivity by First Lady Lori Hauser Holden on behalf of her husband Gov. Bob Holden at a special ceremony on ...
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