Melinda and Seth Moser watch media interviews in November after arguments before the Missouri Supreme Court on custody of their adopted child, Carlos.

In a 4-3 ruling that runs nearly 100 pages, the majority threw out a Jasper County judge’s order terminating the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman and handing her son, Carlos, to a Carthage couple.

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The case before the Supreme Court involved Timothy J. Finnegan, who asked the Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline for a disability retirement from his job as a family court commissioner in the St. Louis Circuit Court earlier this year, according to documents filed with the Supreme Court. The CRRD found that Finnegan is disabled and should receive benefits the Missouri Constitution guarantees to judges.

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An appeal in a drunken driving case is giving the Missouri Supreme Court its first chance to apply a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on ineffective assistance of counsel.

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