Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has prefiled a bill targeting the bank accounts of drug dealers in Missouri. The act requires drug dealers to pay a stamp tax on each gram of illegal drugs in their possession. The stamps would ...
Read More »Archer Urges Bar Members To 'Work As Healers'
Lawyers have the power to heal. American Bar Association President Dennis Archer told more than 600 Members of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association that they can be healers of pain in society, at the 119th Annual Meeting at the ...
Read More »Kansas City Area Firms Sign Diversification Pledge
Managing partners of 26 Kansas City Metropolitan law firms signed a commitment to increase diversity in their firms. “This is no small task,” American Bar Association President Dennis Archer challenged the group gathered at the Downtown Marriott Muehlebach Hotel as ...
Read More »Plaintiffs Have Standing To Contest Credit Union Expansion
The Missouri Supreme Court may have put a halt on the membership expansion of an employees-only credit union to encompass an entire area code after grumbles from area banks led to some hefty statutory interpretations. Despite a ruling by a ...
Read More »Arbitration Agreement In Service Plan Enforceable
An agreement to arbitrate included in a vehicle service plan was not unconscionable and is enforceable, but the requirement that the arbitration take place in Arkansas is unconscionable, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said Tuesday. The appellate court’s ...
Read More »Standard Of Review Set In Workers' Comp Cases
In a unanimously affirmed decision, the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday “standardized” the standard of review for workers’ compensation cases, striking an employer’s plea to weigh favorable evidence against unfavorable evidence to determine whether a commission’s award is reasonable. “There ...
Read More »Federal Title I Funds Not Going To State High Schools
Of the $190 million in federal funding used to bring Missouri students up to speed, almost none is going to state high schools. Title I funding from the federal No Child Left Behind Act is being directed almost exclusively to ...
Read More »Foster Care Returns To Legislative Agenda
State senators are bringing foster care issues back to the table during the legislative session. Senators Norma Champion, R-Greene County, and Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis prefiled foster care reform bills just one week after an audit of the foster care ...
Read More »Kansas City Employees Receive Awards
Four groups of Kansas City employees received Environmental Achievement Awards. Phil Brown and Marcy Woods of the Aviation Department were awarded for solving the Aviation Department’s business needs while significantly improving the environment. Steven Stacy of the Public Works Department ...
Read More »Chief Justice White Pitches Nonpartisan Court Plan
Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronnie White and Missouri Bar President Bill Corrigan attended the St. Charles County Bar Association monthly meeting on Tuesday to discuss the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan and answer questions that bar members raised about it. ...
Read More »Homebuyers Prefer Fixed Rates
The Homeownership Alliance has confirmed that in addition to creating more opportunities for homeownership, historically low interest rates along with other economic factors have prompted more buyers to lock into fixed-rate products rather than adjustable or balloon plans. “The fixed-rate ...
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