The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in two cases concerning the standard plaintiffs have to prove in wrongful termination claims involving violations of public policy. The issue before the court is whether exclusive causation needs to be the ...
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Read More »As the controversy surrounding childhood vaccines continues to prick at concerned parents, a Missouri couple is taking on a global pharmaceutical company, claiming that their now autistic child suffered from mercury poisoning as a result of infant injections. The circuit-court-level ...
Tagged with: Carl Fletcher Merck & Co. Ralonda Bradley vaccine
Read More »Attorneys should know better than to lash out at judges who rule against them. That’s what Attorney General Chris Koster argued in documents filed with the Missouri Supreme Court on Friday in the case of a Douglas County attorney who ...
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Read More »A woman trying to sue a car dealership for the unauthorized practice of law will have to take her case to an arbitrator. But she can bring a lot of friends. In an opinion issued Nov. 3, the Missouri Court ...
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Read More »The family of a woman who died after a bout of pneumonia says the woman wouldn’t have contracted the illness if the furnace in the apartment she shared with her husband hadn’t been leaking carbon monoxide. But the owners of ...
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Read More »Price says refusal could amount to ‘prosecutorial decision'
Karl Meyer, a Saint Louis University law student and intern with the St. Louis Public Defenders office, interviews a potential client to determine his indigency status last week. Interns help with this process to free up public defenders to work on their cases.
The burden of the public defenders' case load was the subject of a Missouri Supreme Court case heard Tuesday in Jefferson City.
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Read More »The family of a man killed at a railroad crossing will have another chance to persuade a jury that his life was worth more than $260,000. Robert Heimann, driving on County Road 413 near Hannibal, collided with a Burlington Northern ...
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Read More »A Vernon County, Mo., man is suing the University of Kansas Hospital for refusing to treat him when it found out he couldn't afford a $15,000 operation.
Daryl Bryant, who lives in Schell City, was working near Nevada when he slipped from a ladder and severely cut his left wrist, lost a lot of blood and injured his arteries, tendons and nerves, he says in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
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Read More »A St. Louis judge has denied six University City residents’ motion to intervene in a class action lawsuit against AT&T. The residents are objecting to the $16.25 million being awarded to the attorneys in the lawsuit as part of a ...
Tagged with: AT&T Edward Sweeney John Mulligan Jr. University City
Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a legal malpractice case that raised questions about a series of confidential settlements with two drug companies. The order from the nation’s highest court was issued Monday without comment. ...
Tagged with: Davis Bethune & Jones Legal malpractice U.S. Supreme Court
Read More »A federal judge in St. Louis sentenced BetonSports founder Gary Kaplan to 51 months in prison. Assuming he qualifies for good-time credits, he’ll serve just 85 percent of that sentence, and then he’s also expected to receive credit for the ...
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