Negligence: Motor Vehicle Accident-Setting Aside Default Judgment
McFall v. Hogan (MLW No. 82652/Case No. ED122561 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Gardner, J.) Appeal from circuit court, City of St. Louis, Sengheiser, J. (Joseph K. Robbins...
View ArticleTorts: Defamation-Agency
Apperson v. Kaminsky (MLW No. 82653/Case No. ED112529 – 23 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Wright, J.) Appeal from circuit court, St. Louis County, Vincent, J. (John D. Kershman,...
View ArticleContracts: Gate Construction-Breach
Seitz v. Advanced Welding & Manufacturing, Inc. (MLW No. 82661/Case No. SD38421 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Sheffield, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Greene County,...
View ArticleTorts: Tortious Interference-Sufficiency of Allegations
Branson’s Nantucket, LLC v. Timeshare Law Office, LLC (MLW No. 82662/Case No. SD38350 – 24 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Chapman, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Barry County,...
View ArticleAdministrative: Sunshine Law-Protective Order
Gross v. Schmitt (MLW No. 82657/Case No. WD87007 – 43 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ardini, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Cole County, Green, J. (Elad Gross, appellant pro se)...
View ArticleCriminal Law: Attempted Burglary-Sufficiency of Evidence
State v. Todd (MLW No. 82658/Case No. WD86836 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Cole County, Walker, J. (Ellen Flottman, Columbia for...
View ArticleCriminal Law: DUI-Cumulative Errors
State v. Nichols (MLW No. 82659/Case No. WD86686 – 16 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ardini, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Buchanan County, Robb, J. (William J. Swift for...
View ArticleCriminal Law: Petition for Declaratory Judgment-Collateral Attack on Conviction
Duvall v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 82656/Case No. WD87253 – 11 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Cole County,...
View ArticleCriminal Law: Post-Conviction Relief-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Ward v. State (MLW No. 82660/Case No. WD86338 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Pettis County, Koffman, J. (Katharine P. Curry, Columbia...
View ArticleNew AG Pam Bondi orders review of Trump cases as she takes over Justice Dept.
New Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Donald Trump as she unveiled a series of directives designed to overhaul a Justice Department the president...
View ArticleJustice Sotomayor renews opposition to court’s ruling that ex-presidents have...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her conservative colleagues are risking the court's legitmacy with decisions affording President Donald Trump broad immunity and overturning longstanding...
View ArticleAppeals court affirms decision in dating defamation case
The Eastern District upheld a trial court’s decision to deny a plaintiff’s defamation claims after two women they dated accused them of rape.
View Article22 states sue New York, alleging environmental fund is unconstitutional
Twenty-two states, including Missouri, sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage...
View ArticleWisconsin Supreme Court says embattled elections chief can remain in post
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential...
View ArticlePsychiatrist not negligent in case of patient who killed stepfather
A St. Louis County jury found a psychiatrist not negligent in a $27.6M med-mal suit after one of their patients killed his stepfather following the psychiatrist’s prescription of an anti-depressant for...
View Article21st Circuit accepting applicants to fill circuit judge vacancy
The 21st Judicial Commission in St. Louis County is accepting applications to fill a circuit judge vacancy.
View ArticleSupreme Court that Trump helped shape could have last word on executive orders
President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White...
View ArticleNearly two dozen states sue Trump administration to stop cuts in medical...
Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration for slashing funding for medical and public health research at universities nationwide.
View ArticleMissouri appeals court to hold special docket at SLU Law School
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District will hear oral arguments for a special docket on Feb. 27 at Saint Louis University School of Law.
View ArticleTrespassing, mortgage default dispute headed to trial after summary judgment...
A dispute over trespassing and a mortgage contract will head to trial after a federal court denied both the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s motions for summary judgment.
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