A proposal to limit Missouri’s municipal court fines is facing some skepticism in the House after breezing through the Senate. Sen. Eric Schmitt told a House panel Wednesday that cities across the state have abused ordinance fines to extract money ...
Read More »Mormon scolded by Christian group is at center of Kansas law
Daniel Arkell was leading a Bible study for a Christian group at Washburn University Law School in Kansas back in 2004 when the group’s president reprimanded him for saying that people’s eyes offer a glimpse into their souls. Arkell, who ...
Read More »Primaries reveal deep political divides in Missouri
Missouri is historically a politically divided state, splitting closely between Democrats and Republicans. This week’s presidential primaries revealed those divisions also run deeply within each party. Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump each led their challengers by a mere ...
Read More »Analysis: Obama dares GOP to let Clinton, Trump pick justice
By nominating an uncontroversial 63-year-old judge, President Barack Obama handed Republicans an unwelcome election-year proposition: Give in or risk letting Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump pick a Supreme Court justice the GOP might like even less. Obama’s selection of appellate judge ...
Read More »NFL remarks on football-brain link come before court ruling
The NFL’s sudden acknowledgement of a link between football and brain disease comes as a U.S. appeals court prepares to rule on the fairness of a likely $1 billion settlement that excludes future CTE diagnoses. The NFL filed a letter with ...
Read More »Missouri House votes to override governor’s budget limits
The Missouri House voted Wednesday to release nearly $1 million for education and health care programs the governor had restricted, invoking for the first time a constitutional power lawmakers gained less than two years ago. Lawmakers voted Wednesday to release ...
Read More »Missouri senators divided on Garland nomination
Missouri’s two members of the U.S. Senate had opposite takes on Wednesday to President Barack Obama’s candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. The president nominated Merrick Garland, currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Read More »Paper: Federal civil rights cases against officers are rare
Federal prosecutors declined to pursue civil rights allegations against law enforcement officers 96 percent of the time since 1995, a newspaper found, with most experts blaming the low prosecution rate on the difficulty of winning such cases. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ...
Read More »Court tosses sex abuse suit against Boy Scouts
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the majority of a lawsuit by a Kansas City man who alleged he was abused by his scoutmaster, saying the statutes of limitations for claims against the scouting organization have expired. The ...
Read More »Clinton, Trump lead in Missouri by slim margins
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump clung to slim advantages over their challengers in Missouri’s presidential primaries following victories in several other pivotal states that bolstered their standing as national front-runners. Fewer than 2,000 votes separated Trump, the billionaire ...
Read More »Ohio court: Inmate who survived ’09 execution can be put to death
Ohio can try again to put to death a condemned killer whose 2009 botched execution was called off after two hours, the Ohio Supreme Court said Wednesday. The court by a 4-3 vote rejected arguments by death row inmate Romell Broom, ...
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