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Law.com reports large malpractice

Posted on September 11, 2009
Law.com reports large malpractice suit against Bryan Cave partner Lawrence Brody for allegedly botching a Prenuptial agreement that cost the husband about $10million from extra taxes. Businessman sues St. Louis-based Bryan Cave over prenup (allbusiness...

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Posted on September 08, 2009
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in case of first impression holds that automobile purchase money lender has secured claim for the "negative equity" trade-in financed amount was part of the creditors secured claim and the debtors may not bifurcate the car loan...

Missouri Supreme Court declines

Posted on September 06, 2009
Missouri Supreme Court declines to review Western District ruling that ended Clay Chastain's plans for a light rail line from Kansas City International Airport to Lee's Summit. Kansas City Business journal. The Missouri Supreme Court will not take up an appeal by supporters of Clay Chastain to get the repeal of his voter-approved light-rail plan from 2006 ruled unconstitutional...

Kansas City area aviation law firm

Posted on September 06, 2009
Kansas City area aviation law firm Robb and Robb wins $15 million settlement from 2006 plane crash near Chicago in which an amateur pilot employed with Morgan Stanley nose dived the plane as it approached for landing. Kansas City Business Journal. Decedent was prominent restauranteur in Chicago area...

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Pfizer and a subsidiary agree to

Posted on September 06, 2009
Pfizer and a subsidiary agree to settle fraud claims with the United States Justice Department. Kansas City Business Journal. Pfizer Inc. and a subsidiary agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle charges that it illegally promoted certain drugs. Missouri will get $22 million as its share of the settlement, and Kansas will get $6 million...

Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal

Posted on September 06, 2009
Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal spares Kansas City outpost from recent wave of layoffs. Kansas City Business Journal. The firm announced layoffs last week firm wide of fewer than 24 associates and fewer than 36 lawyers overall. Firm officials said that the Kansas City office was unaffected by the latest reduction...

What do the students who do best

Posted on September 01, 2009
What do the students who do best on the LSAT major in during college? The Volokh Conspiracy cites research that shows Economics and Philosophy do best:"Economics majors still perform at or near the top of all majors taking the test. Economics majors (LSAT score of 157...

Volokh Conspiracy blogs about recent

Posted on August 22, 2009
Volokh Conspiracy blogs about recent MySpace harassment case: Missouri Prosecution for Emotionally Distressing a Minor: "As I've noted before, this is an extremely vague and potentially broad statute (Section 565.090.1 RS MO._ It's a crime (perhaps a felony) to purposefully "emotionally distress" someone "without good cause," with the jury deciding what's good cause -- imagine how much speech this can cover...

Follow up: Missouri Supreme Court

Posted on July 03, 2008
Follow up: Missouri Supreme Court finds no equal protection problem in state law that allowed counties to contribute lower retirement fund contributions for full time attorneys hired before August 28 2001 than those hired after that date. Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys and Circuit Attorneys Retirement System, an Agency of the State of Missouri, Respondent, v...

Missouri Supreme Court halts plan

Posted on July 03, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court halts plan to require retired St Louis poliice officers to pay increased health insurance premiums. St. Louis Police Officers' Association, et al., Appellants, v. Board of Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, et al., Respondents...

Does the St Louis City Circuit

Posted on June 24, 2008
Does the St Louis City Circuit Court have too many judges? No because criminal defendants like their chances with City juries. St Louis Today.com. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bryan Stevenson, R-Webb City, introduced legislation that would have reduced the City Circuit's judges by 25%...

Missouri Supreme Court Justice

Posted on June 24, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh resigns July 31 to take federal district court slot. News-Leader.com Supreme Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh plans to resign July 31, after being confirmed last week to a federal judgeship in St. Louis...

Missouri Senate Bill 711 will cut

Posted on June 20, 2008
Missouri Senate Bill 711 will cut property taxes on real estate near KCI Airport. KC Business Journal. Senate Bill 711, which awaits Gov. Matt Blunt's signature, is viewed as vital to KCI Intermodal BusinessCentre. The bill modifies what's known as the state's bonus value tax...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern

Posted on May 26, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District reverses $1 million verdict that was against the City of O'Fallon in dispute with landowner near Highway 40 who had an annexation agreement with O'Fallon for placing sewer lines on his property. When the landowner's son sold the property to National Paper he had to greatly reduce his asking price because the City had not yet put in sewer lines...

An employer could enforce a non-compete

Posted on May 26, 2008
An employer could enforce a non-compete agreement in a terminated employee's contract when the employee left the company after 12 years even though the employee contended that an attachment to the contract made it good for only the first year of employment...

Recent study shows IRA account

Posted on May 25, 2008
Recent study shows IRA account holders delay taking distributions even though they have waited long enough. Free Library.com.Americans who have money stored in Individual Retirement Accounts tend to hang on to it for use in the later years of their retirement, according to a study released in January 2008...

US Attorney for the Eastern District

Posted on May 25, 2008
US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri nets $15 million fine from money wiring service Sigue for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and for failing to properly monitor money-laundering. US Department of Justice.Assistant Attorney General Alice S...

Missouri Court of Appeals dismisses

Posted on May 11, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals dismisses mandamus petitioner's action to compel the Missouri Human Rights Commission to pay the petitioner her attoreny fees and costs arising from employment discrimination case the Commission declined to pursue.Gloria Painter, et al...

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Posted on May 11, 2008
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Bankruptcy Panel denies collection agency's claim to bankrupt pre-need burial plan provider's nearly $167k in unclaimed plan distribution funds. 076071P.pdf 05/08/2008 Omega Consulting v. R. Deryl Edwards, Sr. U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-6071 U...

Missouri court of appeals western

Posted on May 11, 2008
Missouri court of appeals western district reverses summary judgment and allows homeowners to sue Shelter Insurance Company for a greater replacement cost to rebuild their home. Douglas Dibben and Deborah Dibben, Appellants, v. Shelter Insurance Company, Respondent: WD68269 "Douglas and Deborah Dibben appeal the circuit court's summary judgment for Shelter Insurance Company in the Dibbens' lawsuit for breach of contract...

Missouri court of appeals southern

Posted on May 11, 2008
Missouri court of appeals southern district affirms judgment for Newton County hospital in collection suit, and rejects challenge to medical records law. Lester E. Cox Medical Centers Springfield MO, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Steve G. Richards and Toni Richards, Defendants-Appellants...

On re-transfer from the Missouri

Posted on May 11, 2008
On re-transfer from the Missouri Supreme Court, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District reverses St Louis County Circuit Court's order that reinstated an insurance agent's license and allowed his agency's license to be renewed. Although the disciplined insurance agent and agency "won" in the circuit court, they were still the aggrieved party at the administrative level, and therefore needed to act as the appellant when the case reached the appellate courts...

Car rental firms sue Orbitz reservation

Posted on May 04, 2008
Car rental firms sue Orbitz reservation website for removing their automobiles from web listings. St Louis Business Journal. Alamo Rent A Car and National Car Rental, which are owned by the Taylor Family of St. Louis, have filed a lawsuit against Orbitz Worldwide Inc...

The federal Office of the Comptroller

Posted on May 04, 2008
The federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency may have Wachovia on the hook for up to $144million for consumer protection violations. St Louis Business Journal. Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $144 million in a settlement with federal regulators over allegations that elderly customers were harmed by its relationship with several telemarketers...

Employee of the Squaw Creek Truck

Posted on May 03, 2008
Employee of the Squaw Creek Truck Stop that the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska owns sued the tribal government for wrongful termination. The trial court dismissed because the Tribe had not waived its sovereign immunity. Missouri Court of Appeals affirms, although the tribal corporation charter included a "sue and be sued" clause, that did not make the Tribe waive its immunity...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western

Posted on May 03, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Western District shoots down Secretary State Carnahan's blatant attempt to torpedo initiative petition to add banning embryonic cloning to the 2006 Missouri Anti-Cloning Constitutional Amendment. Cures Without Cloning, Lori Buffa, M...

Wal-Mart drops its $400k plus subrogation

Posted on May 03, 2008
Wal-Mart drops its $400k plus subrogation judgment against a former employee that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had affirmed but the Court of Public Opinion had vetoed. Worker Comp Insider. Deb Shank suffered serous injuries in a motor vehicle accident...

RGA Reinsurance licensed as captive

Posted on April 27, 2008
RGA Reinsurance licensed as captive insurance company. ST Louis Business Journal. RGA Reinsurance Co., a St. Louis-based subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, was granted Missouri's first special purpose life reinsurance captive insurance company license, the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration said Monday...

Follow up: Husch Blackwell Sanders

Posted on April 27, 2008
Follow up: Husch Blackwell Sanders opens Chicago office, hopes to "outsource" legal work to cheaper offices. ST Louis Business Journal. Wednesday is the first day of business at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP's Chicago office. The newly merged Husch Blackwell Sanders now is Missouri's second-largest law firm...

Gallop Johnson Neuman law firm

Posted on April 27, 2008
Gallop Johnson Neuman law firm builds its Intellectual Property practice section. St Louis Business Journal. Gallop, Johnson & Neuman's Intellectual Property Practice Group continues to expand its IP practice with the addition of Kenneth Solomon and Jeffrey Kass, former partners at the Thompson Coburn and Armstrong Teasdale law firms, respectively...

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