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A St. Charles man convicted of two counts of capital murder in 1982 has lost his most recent appeal – a habeas petition before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in which he argued that the state trial court ...

Despite winning a verdict of $45,000 in damages, a woman injured in a car accident appealed, arguing the court should not have allowed witness testimony from a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with somatization disorder without interviewing her or viewing her ...

A visitor’s criminal record won’t stop a Wellston resident from renting a subsidized apartment from the local public housing authority, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, affirmed on Tuesday. “The Housing Authority’s efforts to promote the welfare and safety ...

Spring has arrived and homeowners are making post-winter checks on their property, noting damage left behind by ice and snow, or facing, once again, those improvement projects that did not get completed last fall. With the opening of home improvement ...

When a woman testified that she didn’t see any ice or snow where she fell, she lost her claim for damages against a condominium and its maintenance crew. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, affirmed a lower court’s decision, ...

Outsourcing jobs to workers in other countries isn’t just a private-sector issue anymore. It’s also a governmental concern. State Rep. Mark Abel, D-District 103, wants all state service contracts to require all contractor employees or subcontractor employees be citizens of ...

A company that transports physically and mentally handicapped individuals is liable for the injuries suffered by a woman who was thrown out of her seat in an accident because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The woman, Donna Bowan, was ...

Did the plaintiff inmate establish that a physician acted with deliberate indifference to his medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment? The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York addressed this issue in Rogers v. Morgan. ...

A circuit court did not err in overruling an objection to an attorney’s closing argument concerning the other counsel’s failure to call its own medical doctor as an expert. However, it did err in not including prejudgment interest because the ...

The Gateway Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators rang in its new year under new leadership last Wednesday during a monthly meeting held at Kemoll’s. During its induction ceremony, hosted by 15-year legal administration veteran and national ALA President-elect ...

Judge Robert G. Ulrich is back on the docket at the Court of Appeals for the Western District. In fact, he never left town. Earlier this month, The Daily Record reported Judge Ulrich would be going to Iraq as part ...