State Law

St Louis University Law School's

Posted on April 27, 2008
St Louis University Law School's Health Law program is best in the nation; Washington University School of Law earns overall 19th place in US News Graduate School rankings. ST Louis Business Journal. Saint Louis University's health law program was ranked the best in the nation by U...

St Charles County area collection

Posted on April 27, 2008
St Charles County area collection agency terminated a Muslim female employee because she refused to remove her headscarf while at work. The federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission fines company $65000 for failing to accomodate the Muslim employee's request to wear the scarf at work...

Tight credit markets are hurting

Posted on April 27, 2008
Tight credit markets are hurting MOHELA's contributions to educational building projects. St Louis Business Journal. Missouri's student loan authority is delaying part of a payment toward the state's college construction projects as it continues to grapple with financial losses and the tight credit market...

Anheuser-Busch takes its shares

Posted on April 27, 2008
Anheuser-Busch takes its shares off London Stock Exchange trading. ST Louis Business Journal. Due to low trading volumes, Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. has requested to delist its shares from the Official List of the United Kingdom Listing Authority and to have the admission to trading of its shares on the London Stock Exchange canceled, the company said Monday...

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Chief Disciplinary Counsel for

Posted on April 25, 2008
Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the Missouri Supreme Court seeks disbarment for Clayton attorney who was active in Christian public service work for misappropriating client funds. ST Louis Today. Former Supreme Court Justice Ann Covington represents Attorney Belz...

Former federal prosecutor and former

Posted on April 23, 2008
Former federal prosecutor and former Missouri Supreme Court Justice Robertson fight back against State Farm efforts to dismiss their clients' whistleblower lawsuits and to disqualify them as counsel for the plaintiffs. KC Star Business. Former U.S. attorney Todd Graves and former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice Chip Robertson are angrily denying charges of wrongdoing by State Farm Insurance in Hurricane Katrina-related litigation in Mississippi...

Diet or Regular? Missouri Supreme

Posted on April 23, 2008
Diet or Regular? Missouri Supreme Court reverses Jackson County Circuit Court ruling that certified a plaintiff class against Coca-Cola . KC Business Journal. The Jackson county circuit court granted class status to plaintiffs who alleged that Coca-Cola deceptively marketed Diet Coke because fountain dispensed Diet Coke contained saccharine as well as aspartame...

Nasdaq delists Frontier Airlines

Posted on April 23, 2008
Nasdaq delists Frontier Airlines stock after its chapter 11 filing. KC Business Journal. The Nasdaq Stock Market will delist the stock of Frontier Airlines' parent company starting April 22 as a result of the low-cost carrier's bankruptcy. The airline's parent company, Denver-based Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc...

Tobacco companies make additonal

Posted on April 23, 2008
Tobacco companies make additonal payment of $146 million to Missouri under Master Settlement Agreement. KC Business Journal. Missouri received an additional $146 million from tobacco companies on Tuesday as the state's payment from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement...

Interstate Bakeries (IBC) requests

Posted on April 23, 2008
Interstate Bakeries (IBC) requests extension to file chapter 11 reorganization plan. KC Business journal. Interstate Bakeries Corp. wants more time to cook up bankruptcy reorganization options, and its lenders seem to approve. The Kansas City-based baker (OTC: IBCIQ), known for iconic brands such as Hostess and Wonder, said in a late Friday release that it had asked the U...

Follow up: Cozac Wireless purchases

Posted on April 23, 2008
Follow up: Cozac Wireless purchases Hispanic telecomm Movida after Movida filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. KC Business Journal.APC Wireless subsidiary Cozac Wireless LLC has bought Movida Communications Inc. for $2.8 million. Kansas City-based Movida, which provides wireless service to the U...

Wireless start-up firm that targets

Posted on April 13, 2008
Wireless start-up firm that targets Hispanic customers Movida files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. KC Business Journal. Movida Communications Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing debts of $10 million to $100 million and assets of $10 million to $50 million...

Sinson Morrison advises movie theatre

Posted on April 13, 2008
Sinson Morrison advises movie theatre REIT on $500 milliion stock issue. KC Business Journal. Kansas City lawyers at Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP said they have advised public stock offerings with an aggregate value of $500 million in the past 15 months for Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR)...

After Boston Scientific acquired

Posted on April 13, 2008
After Boston Scientific acquired medical device maker Guidant, it hires Shook Hardy Bacon attorney Tim Pratt to be tis general counsel. KC Business Journal. Timothy Pratt, a longtime lawyer at Kansas City-based law firm Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, will leave the firm at the end of April to become general counsel for Boston Scientific Corp...

Regional carrier Frontier Airlines

Posted on April 12, 2008
Regional carrier Frontier Airlines files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. KC Business Journal.Frontier Airlines' parent company said Friday that it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing an unexpected attempt by its main credit card processor to substantially increase a "holdback" of customer receipts, threatening Frontier's liquidity...

Feds indict tax return preparer

Posted on April 12, 2008
Feds indict tax return preparer for filing 300 false income tax returns. KC Business Journal. A federal grand jury in Kansas City on Friday indicted a former tax preparer for filing nearly 300 tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service that contained false information...

Allstate Insurance discloses on-line

Posted on April 12, 2008
Allstate Insurance discloses on-line internal documents on its campaign to reduce its costs to settle low-impact automobile accident cases. KC Business Journal. A Jackson County judge had earlier ordered Allstate to produce these documents and assessed a $25000 per diem fine for failing to provide the documents...

Holt County defendant in prescription

Posted on April 10, 2008
Holt County defendant in prescription fraud case wins her motion to disqualify the prosecuting attorney because the attorney formerly defended her in a similar case in Nodaway County when he was in private practice. Missouri Supreme Court issues writ to disqualify the prosecutor...

St Louis area fitness club loses

Posted on April 09, 2008
St Louis area fitness club loses sales tax refund fight in the Missouri Supreme Court. Michael Jaudes Fitness Edge, Inc., Appellant, v. Director of Revenue, Respondent.: SC88605Fitness Edge is a place of recreation, and the fees it receives for its training services may be taxed pursuant to section 144...

Retired worker compensation administrative

Posted on April 09, 2008
Retired worker compensation administrative law judge loses bid for an earlier retirement age. Judge Sinhold retired in 1989 when retirement was at 65. In 1999 the Missouri Legislature reduces the retirement age to 62. He sought retroactive retirement benefits, or for the Missouri Retirement System (MOSERS) to declare him a special consultant as the Missouri Supreme Court allowed for a teacher in State ex rel...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western

Posted on March 29, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Western District orders new trial for murder convict whose defense counsel failed to properly request a court-appointed psychiatric expert. While Sections 552.020 and 552.030 in some cases require the court to appoint an expert to make findings as to the defendant's mental condition relating to the crime, those statutes do not provide the type of expert assistance envisioned by Ake v...

Follow up: Personal Injury attorney

Posted on March 29, 2008
Follow up: Personal Injury attorney Terry Crouppen's on-going divorce case heads back to the Missouri Court of Appeals to determine whether his ex-wife would receive part of his law firm's S-Corporation distributions. St Louis Today. "High-profile personal injury lawyer Terry Crouppen and his former wife, Carol, are back in the Missouri Court of Appeals, whether they like it or not...

Follow up: Missouri Supreme Court

Posted on March 28, 2008
Follow up: Missouri Supreme Court upholds FELA verdict after United States Supreme Court ordered the case remanded to clarify that the causation standards are the same for determining the defendant's negligence and the plaintiff's comparative negligence...

Plaintiff filed a wrongful death

Posted on March 21, 2008
Plaintiff filed a wrongful death action for the decedent's daughter as an attorney-in-fact for the decedent's daughter against nursing home where decedent resided before her death. Trial court dismissed wrongful death action holding that the plaintiffs' subsequent pleading amendments did not relate back to the intial filing and were tardy under the statute of limitations...

Plaintiff-representatives of decedent

Posted on March 21, 2008
Plaintiff-representatives of decedent who died in a fatal work accident sued attorney for malpractice and filed the case in St Louis City Circuit Court. The trial court judge ordered them to move the case to St Louis County where the attorney had his office...

Missouri Supreme Court in companion

Posted on March 21, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court in companion case Donna Collier, Respondent v. City of Oak Grove, Missouri, Appellant. : SC88580 rules that apartment building owners who suffered a temporary taking from the City's sewer back-ups were entitled to damages for the rental payments they lost due to the damage and also the cost of repairing the property...

Missouri Supreme Court reverses

Posted on March 21, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court reverses inverse condemnation verdict from Jackson County Circuit Court for a remittitur or new trial on damages arising from recurring sewage back-ups onto plaintiff's property. Donna Collier, Respondent v. City of Oak Grove, Missouri, Appellant...

Missouri Supreme Court affirms

Posted on March 21, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court affirms treble damages for class plaintiffs who sued within the limitations period Countrywide Home Loans who charged the borrowers for legal document preparation, and therefore conducting unauthorized legal services, see 484.020...

Missouri Supreme Court catches

Posted on March 21, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court catches title companies' notaries charging customers an extra dollar for notarizing their signatures but not recording them in their books. James A. Finnegan, Appellant v. Old Republic Title Co. of St. Louis, Inc., Respondent. (Consolidated with) Lisa L...

Houston-based REIT buys Crown Center

Posted on March 20, 2008
Houston-based REIT buys Crown Center office building that anchors Kansas City law firm Shook Hardy and Bacon. GlobeSt.Com. 595,600 square foot building, estimated rent $20-24 per square foot. $156million price tage, 24 stories. Hines REIT has purchased the 595,600-sf 2555 Grand building in the Crown Center submarket from Crown Center Redevelopment Corp...

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