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In a case of first impression, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday threw out a lower court’s determination that a man’s death as a consequence of his drunken driving was reasonably foreseeable and therefore not an accident ...

During a typical year housing accounts for about 15 percent of the gross domestic product. For the past three years, real estate has led the way through a recession and into recovery by demonstrating how many facets of this industry ...

When Presiding Judge Jay Daugherty traveled to Paris, France he saw a vision for the Jackson County Courthouse. At the Palace of Justice, he realized Jackson County’s courthouse could have the kind of longevity the Paris Courthouse has withstood. Renovations ...

It sounded like a repeat of last year’s talk about bills in the House and Senate that would help employers and workers in the state – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. When state Rep. Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis, ...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri is one of seven federal courts that will participate in a pilot project to test the Judicial Conference’s policy concerning the redaction of personal identifiers in court transcripts. The pilot ...

Who says sneak peeks have to remain in Hollywood? The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will offer inside peeks into heated oral arguments scheduled for this Wednesday’s docket at Washington University’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom for a special session ...

It’s time to stop putting off until tomorrow what can be done right now. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has announced that attorneys authorized to practice before the court must file their renewal registrations before ...

It is not enough to have “substantially identical” issues in a prior case for the rules of collateral estoppel to apply, a Missouri appellate court said last week. The case pitted several plaintiffs against Cornerstone Propane, a company that was ...

The Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance (LEAP) Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the annual King and Queen Coronation Luncheon and Mardi Gras Activities. The luncheon is set for noon, Tuesday, February 24 at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association ...

A nunc pro tunc judgment correcting a dissolution of marriage decree after a mother’s death stands, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, found, providing a Douglas County trial court the authority to distribute marital property but not the authority ...

A circuit court erred in admitting a lab report that indicated the presence of methamphetamine on seized items into evidence because the state presented no evidence the items’ condition remained unchanged between seizure and testing. In State of Missouri, Respondent ...