Former New York Mayor Ed Koch will give the keynote address at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association's Annual Meeting, to be held Friday at the Marriott Muehlebach Hotel in downtown Kansas City.

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The judge who will soon be the main steward of the Missouri Plan said Tuesday that he's open to some changes in its structure. Judge William Ray Price Jr. will take office as chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court on July 1, a position that makes him the head of the commission that selects candidates for judicial vacancies.

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a company operating a private jail in Johnson County must pay the state sales and use taxes on consumable items it supplies to inmates. But one judge is questioning whether a private company is ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court considered last week whether to dismiss a Newton County man’s drunken driving conviction because the arresting officer did not provide a Miranda warning after placing him in handcuffs. In September 2006, a member of the Missouri ...

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An attorney for a St. Charles woman convicted of manufacturing meth argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that prosecutors inappropriately used hearsay evidence to help secure her conviction. Jessica Reed of St. Charles County was convicted of attempting ...

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