The U.S. Supreme Court’s “city-friendly” ruling last week allowing local governments to seize homes and businesses for private development was exactly what Kansas City officials believed the law already was, according to an assistant city attorney. But Theodore Anderson said ...
Read More »Not-so-typical firearm conviction reversed by 7th U.S. Circuit Court
A jailhouse romance ignited by love letters to a legal secretary, a lover’s quarrel that ended with a blast from a pistol and a polygraph test showing the alleged crime occurred 10 years earlier. This is not the kind of ...
Read More »Driver license renewals in Missouri about to get more complicated
Get ready to search through those dresser drawers, desks, file cabinets and whatever nooks and crannies you have at home to store important documents. Starting July 1, Missourians who want to obtain or renew their driver licenses will have to ...
Read More »Bryan Cave attorneys author fifth edition of 'Missouri Corporation Law and Practice'
Bryan Cave Attorneys Charles Hansen and Don G. Lents have authored a fifth edition of the popular Missouri Corporation Law and Practice. “The treatise provides a thorough background for Missouri general and business corporation law, the Missouri Limited Liability Company ...
Read More »Refusal to submit to test results in inadmissible BAC evidence
Suspected drunk drivers don’t have to submit to blood tests if they don’t want to, and the Director of Revenue can’t use ill gotten test results to wrest someone’s driver’s license from them. In Harold Ray Murphy v. Director of ...
Read More »Bill that limits selling services divides government, professionals
A bill approved by the state legislature would require that certain services be provided by a real estate agent or broker who has entered into an exclusive brokerage agreement. House Bill 174 specifies that the broker or affiliated licensee must ...
Read More »OSHA rewriting rules old on electrical power generation
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is rewriting its outdated rules guarding workers on electrical power generation projects. The OSHA standards regulating construction of power transmission lines and generation facilities were adopted in 1972. The administration has been considering updating ...
Read More »CB Richard Ellis Group forms new company
CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. and its subsidiary L.J. Melody & Co. have formed a finance company that specializes in originating, acquiring, investing in, financing and managing a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate-related loans and securities. The company, called ...
Read More »Missouri's local use taxes do not violate the U.S. Commerce Clause
Missouri’s local use tax laws do not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The court came to this conclusion by examining the purpose of the law and how the law changed since ...
Read More »Employer allowed to make demands of injured workers
Unwilling to tamper with the Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday held permissible an employer’s right to make its injured union employees use their paid-leave benefits when missing work to receive follow-up medical ...
Read More »Airport screening did not violate Fourth Amendment
It was not an infringement of an airline passenger’s Fourth Amendment rights for him to be subjected to a random security screening with a handheld wand, the 9th Circuit has ruled. The defendant was attempting to board a domestic flight ...
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