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For more than two decades, the question of whether license fee contractors can be fired based solely on their political ties has been litigated in state and federal court, eventually ending in a Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, decision ...

Could it be the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, is done telling trial judges to do their homework in domestic matters? One of the shortest reversals by the court may signal end of these cases given a new Supreme ...

When Derrick Good was awarded a contract to run a license fee office in High Ridge last year, he said his goal was to improve customer service. The president of the Jefferson County Republicans hung his picture in the fee ...

Bills addressing salaries for judges and other elected state officials, changes in the whistle-blower law and medical malpractice insurance were clearing final hurdles in the last days of the Missouri General Assembly’s 2006 session. A bill on restitution for former ...

It’s a fine line between victory and defeat. Just ask Rockwell Automation, Inc. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, just put a $97.6 million defeat right back at its door. Rockwell caught a break a couple of years ago ...

Missouri has a substantial number of tax incentives designed to encourage economic development. Missouri’s historic rehabilitation tax credit program is recognized as one of the most successful tax credit programs in the country for spurring economic development. This program can ...

In the state of Florida, a small group of lawyers has made it their mission to sail the world’s biggest cruise lines into the courtroom. While many of the slip-and-fall, repetitive stress or other personal injury complaints that arise on ...

A casino company and owners of property near a proposed casino site did not have standing to appeal a decision by the Missouri Gaming Commission, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled. At dispute in the case ...

It’s a litigious society we live in, and all businesses face the possibility of dealing with a lawsuit brought by an employee or former employee. A company’s best defense against potential lawsuits is to arm itself with lawful workplace policies ...

If notice of a tax sale is sent to a property owner and returned undelivered, the government is constitutionally required to take additional reasonable steps to provide notice before taking the property, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Jones ...

The much ballyhooed “CSI effect” may not be all it’s cracked up to be – in fact, the popular TV crime show may have the opposite effect on juries than observers have assumed. According to law professor Tom Tyler, there ...