Monday was a big day for small businesses in Missouri. The state House and Senate held a joint press conference at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., to discuss the importance of a bill that would directly impact small businesses ...
Read More »'Daily Record' to salute KC's Legal Leaders (1010)
Luncheon set for April 13 at Hyatt Regency to recognize those who go above and beyond the call of duty
Read More »Western District finds manifest injustice in case
A trial court plainly erred in failing to instruct the jury on the definition of “possession” in a criminal case involving the manufacturing of methamphetamine. In State of Missouri, Respondent v. Jason Farris, Appellant a passenger from a car containing ...
Read More »Contempt reversed in lap dance case
A jury should have been asked to decide whether clothed lap dancing was barred by a city zoning ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses, concluded a unanimous panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, reversing a $68,000 contempt ...
Read More »Malcolm Martin, law firm co-founder, dies
Malcolm Martin, co-founder of the law firm that is now Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, died at age 91. Martin was born in St. Louis on Feb. 21, 1912. He is a 1929 graduate of St. Louis Country Day School and ...
Read More »Supreme Court reverses Jackson County ruling
Forgetting that she had been served with a civil complaint did not justify a defendant’s three-month delay in responding, held the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, affirming a default judgment of more than $580,000 against a marina owner sued for ...
Read More »Court rules on family dispute
A father’s attempt to sever decreed higher-education costs and child support for his three daughters fell short of a reversal in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday, due mostly to his failure to file a motion for ...
Read More »HUD plan to receive support
By Mike Nixon Special to the Daily Record
Read More »Court reverses terminated parental rights
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reversed a trial court’s decision to terminate a mother’s parental rights to her daughters. “We review these decisions closely because the termination of parental rights interferes with basic liberty: freedom from ...
Read More »Background checks increase
How much information does your company require when hiring a new employee? Does your company consider using a background check as an additional source of information? Does your business make sure to verify past employment? How well does your company ...
Read More »Prevailing wage dispute sent to Supreme Court
A pair of construction contractors and the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations will face off in the Missouri Supreme Court after a Court of Appeals decision handed down on Tuesday issued a transfer. In its opinion, the Missouri ...
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