Ignoring a steady slide in movie ticket sales, advertisers spent a record $438 million in movie-screen advertisements last year. Still ads and commercials – those mixed in with the coming attractions – increased 23 percent in 2004, according to New ...
Read More »COA affirms, transfers auto accident case to Supreme Court
A traffic accident turned into a legal mess when the various defendants cross claimed one another. And now the Western District of Appeals has decided, in an unusual move, to turn the case over to the Missouri Supreme Court. The ...
Read More »Forgery victim to get interest on his money rules COA
A forgery victim will get his money back with interest. The victim, Conrad Stromberg, sold a piece of DeSoto property to Kevin and Lucinda Moore, owners of Complete Auto Repair, for $100,000. The Strombergs received $7,000 at closing and took ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court to decide if woman can sue over seized computers
Can a businesswoman pursue a Bivens action against the U.S. government for violating her Fifth Amendment rights when her office computers were seized and damaged? The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to answer this question. The court will review a ...
Read More »Failure to post EEOC notice may toll statute of limitations
An employer’s failure to post a statutorily mandated notice of employees’ rights may toll the statute of limitations in an employment discrimination case, the 1st Circuit has ruled. The plaintiffs sued for national origin, sex and age discrimination. The employer, ...
Read More »Eastern District rules terminated employee to get his day in court
Neither sovereign immunity nor the city’s appeals board process could protect Olivette from going to court over a terminated employee’s wrongful discharge petition, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District said Tuesday. Reversing a St. Louis County trial ...
Read More »Advertising spending in '05 to grow modestly
U.S. advertising spending is predicted to grow a moderate 3.4 percent this year, according to a study released Tuesday. Ad spending should hit $145.3 billion this year, up from $140.3 billion last year, according to the study by TNS Media ...
Read More »COA rules that future life insurance proceeds can fund trust
The challenge to a popular estate planning strategy – creating a trust to receive future life insurance proceeds – was rejected last week by the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Eastern District. A decedent’s children claimed that a trust was invalid ...
Read More »Contract worker to get new tortious interference trial
Despite what a jury said about the shoddy treatment of a Sprint PCS contract worker, the judge ordered a new trial and now so has the Western District Court of Appeals. The case involves a Sprint senior manager who worked ...
Read More »8th Circuit limits reasons to reduce sentences for helping prosecutors
The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines do not allow federal trial courts to consider factors unrelated to a defendant’s assistance to prosecutors when entering a downward departure based on a motion by the government, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said ...
Read More »Supreme Court's new documents retention rule clears confusion
Attorneys that have racked up expenses by storing years worth of documents in warehouses now have a new 10-year retention rule that curbs piling up paperwork and the costs associated with it. The Missouri Supreme Court adopted last year a ...
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