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Gov. Bob Holden announced on Wednesday the appointment of David L. Hoven of Pacific, Mo., as associate circuit judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit in Union, Mo. Hoven replaces Associate Circuit Judge Cynthia Eckelkamp, who will become a circuit judge ...

A trial court’s abrupt dismissal of a case with no explanation left the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, little choice but to send the case back for the trial court to finish what it started. Judy Crumbaker sued Albert ...

A couple seeking a 10 percent penalty for a mortgage company’s failure to timely release their deed of trust did not follow statutory requirements in their demand letter, the Missouri Supreme Court held Tuesday in a per curiam opinion. One ...

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight announced last week that average home prices increased nearly 13 percent from the third quarter of 2003 to the third quarter of this year — surpassing the pace of any 12-month increase in ...

A search and seizure at a routine traffic stop which produced evidence that resulted in the conviction of a man as a persistent drug offender was unlawful, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in a reversed ...

A St. Charles County trial court has jurisdiction to determine the enforcement of a commission’s back-pay order, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said Tuesday, attributing the delay in the employee’s income documents to the appeals process. The trial ...

Many investors were burnt by the dot-com bubble burst during the immediate years of the latest century change, so they began looking for other places to put their money. Some might have considered taking a lesson from their grandparents and ...

One man’s death altered his family irrevocably, leaving a wife and a stepson embroiled in a legal battle over a trust sorted out by a divided Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, the majority of which found that, along with ...

According to the Altman Weil Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey of U.S. corporate law departments, published in partnership with the Association of Corporate Counsel, 2004 showed an increase in total cash compensation for most in-house lawyers. “The data seem to ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association is expanding its educational opportunities by offering both MBA members and non-members a new advanced designation of Certified Residential Underwriting for residential real estate. Beginning in 2005, this program will promote continued education for lending professionals ...

In January, five judges of the 22nd Judicial Circuit will begin an experiment that’s expected to pave the way for individual docketing for the entire circuit court. Judges Robert H. Dierker Jr., Joan Burger, Timothy Wilson, Julian Bush and David ...