Missouri courts must have done something right this year. They weren’t on the annual list of “judicial hellholes” and were removed from the report’s “watch list.” The circuit courts in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson ...
Tagged with: American Tort Reform Assocation Missouri Courts Personal Injury & Torts Law
Read More »Officially, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday considered a trial judge’s obligations when approving a ballot initiative summary for circulation to voters. Unofficially, the judges weighed the ways in which the legal system can be used to ...
Read More »For the first time, the Missouri Supreme Court will release the names of those interviewed for judicial vacancies in the courts falling under the Nonpartisan Court Plan. The high court announced Monday it will release the names of every applicant ...
Tagged with: judicial applicants Nonpartisan Court Plan transparency vacancies
Read More »The parents of a college student who died in a fire at a Pi Kappa Alpha house on the University of Missouri-St. Louis’ campus have settled confidentially with the fraternity. Linda Schlittler and Gary Schlittler settled with the fraternity’s local ...
Tagged with: Devereux Murphy Matthew Padberg Michael D. Hart Padberg & Corrigan Pi Kappa Alpha
Read More »A 2-pound reduction in the amount of propane in pre-filled cylinders could translate into an $8 million cost for AmeriGas. That’s how much the propane company agreed to pay under a proposed settlement of 15 class action lawsuits over cylinders ...
Read More »A former New York City mayor peppered his speech to roughly 850 attorneys in Kansas City on Friday with his thoughts on war, his experiences in politics and an F-bomb. Ed Koch, a prior congressman, radio commentator, book author and ...
Read More »A settlement in the largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history last week will bring about $135 million to Missouri to help clean up five Superfund sites. The sites – three in southeastern Missouri and two in the southwestern part ...
Tagged with: Asarco Chris Koster Environmental Protection Agency
Read More »St. Louis lawyer F. Wm. McCalpin, known as the father of Legal Services Corp., died Wednesday.
Tagged with: Bill McCalpin Legal Services Corp.
Read More »A group that has pushed to limit the impact of a voter-approved amendment protecting embryonic stem cell research has filed a federal lawsuit over state officials’ preparation of ballot summaries. The Missouri Roundtable for Life has submitted several proposed ballot ...
Read More »Jurors negated a patent on a remote critical health care system from one of Cerner Corp.'s competitors, finding in favor of the prominent North Kansas City company this week in federal court.
Read More »Two past bar presidents, several prosecutors and public defenders, one judge and one former lawmaker make up the Criminal Justice Task Force, which will study prosecutor and public defender funding problems and come up with solutions for the Legislature.
Tagged with: Joe Moseley Missouri's Public Defender System Skip Walther
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