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A Domestic Violence Awareness display at the Jackson County Courthouse did not prejudice a defendant found guilty for the murder of his girlfriend, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled, affirming the trial court’s decision. In State ...

Telephone service provider Qwest Corp. has been getting its paperwork together since the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held on Monday that a state regulatory body has the authority to determine whether Qwest must report its special access services ...

Missouri Gov. Bob Holden appointed a new chairman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission, Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, on Aug. 17. Jacob replaces John Boyd, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney appointed by Holden to the position of acting chairman ...

An ongoing dispute between the Kansas City, Mo. School District and the Westport Charter School is on its way to the state’s High Court. The original issue in the case was whether or not the school district had the authority ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – A picture is worth a thousand words – especially in the case of a critically injured person who is trying to make others understand what a day in his or her life is like. Videos outlining a ...

With almost a month until The Missouri Bar ushers in a changing of the guard during its annual meeting, and the timely closing of the Board of Governors and Young Lawyers’ Section polls, the results are in, and St. Louisians ...

The Shadow of Justice, a novel written by a lawyer in the wee hours before work each day, sat in a drawer for three years before coming to the attention of the American Bar Association. Now author Milton Hirsh’s novel, ...

A dispute that arose following a dissolution of marriage over a cemetery has been sent back to the trial court. In Dwane Allen Wills,II, et al., Appellants v. Julie R. Whitlock, et al., Respondents, the husband and his company appealed ...

The week of May 10, the national average price for unleaded gasoline topped $2 a gallon, and the cost for diesel was not far behind. Almost immediately, many economists proclaimed that fuel expenses were out of control. They predicted that ...

The number of securities litigation cases with accounting allegations remains well above historical averages, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study and a preliminary analysis of the first half of 2004. Average settlement values continue to increase due in part to ...

Interim Dean Ellen Suni of the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law knows how it feels to negotiate steps in a classroom while on crutches. Last year, she spent several months on crutches while trying to teach ...