Money police seize from prisoners during arrests but that prisoners then assign to pay attorneys’ fees is not subject to the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act, the Missouri Supreme Court said. An opposite decision could have hampered a prisoner’s ability to ...

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A St. Louis woman will get to keep her Jefferson County property though it was sold at a tax sale to another person, according to a ruling handed down Tuesday by the Missouri Supreme Court. The court heard arguments on ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court rejected an attempt from a petroleum company to credit overpayment of cigarette taxes to underpayment of taxes for other transactions. MFA Petroleum Co. owns a number of convenience stores across the states that sell cigarettes. After ...

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Owners of an unusual commercial vehicle are entitled to lost profits for loss of use and replacement costs of the vehicle when it is damaged in a wreck, said the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court affirmed a trial court's award of $201,000 to Gateway Foam Insulators Inc. for the loss of profits, replacement cost and environmental cleanup costs, associated with the wreck of its specialized foam insulation installation truck. The court only reversed an $11,723 award for loan interest.

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The Missouri Supreme Court split Tuesday on a decision that examined a lawyer’s failure to file a timely post-conviction appeal for an incarcerated client. In the 4-3 decision, Judges Laura Denvir Stith, Michael Wolff and Richard Teitelman formed a coalition ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review the appeals filed by a couple of Missouri death row inmates, the court said Monday. Richard Strong was sentenced to death for killing a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In a separate case, Michael ...

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Alarm bells are sounding within the state court system over an early draft of the state budget. The Missouri House gave first-round approval on Wednesday to 13 bills making up the state’s budget, with a final vote expected late Thursday. ...

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The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners had the authority to fire a police officer who beat and spit on a drunken driver who was already subdued, a unanimous Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The officer, Timothy Coffer, has been ...

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A man convicted of incestuous sex crimes could get a new trial – if the Missouri Supreme Court agrees with a state appellate court that the defendant is mentally retarded and unable to assist in his own defense. The case ...

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A judge's discretion to change the venue of a lawsuit in a Louisiana train accident was at issue Wednesday before the Missouri Supreme Court. In June 2007, a train owned by the Kansas City Southern Railroad Co. (headquarters pictured) slammed into a car in Louisiana. In the aftermath of the accident, an injured passenger and the family of a woman who died filed a lawsuit in Jackson County against the railway. The company is fighting a move to keep the lawsuit in Jackson County, saying venue is proper in St. Louis County, where the company’s registered agent resides.

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Michael Teer is a free man. He walked out of the St. Charles County Jail last Thursday after the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis ordered that he be discharged. Teer killed four people and injured another in an ...

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