State Law

Who said getting rid of Florida-style

Posted on February 02, 2008
Who said getting rid of Florida-style "butterfly" ballots would end election contests? Missouri Court of Appeals Western District rejects incumbent's challenge to losing race for Johnson County Auditor by three votes but allows discovery on why some ballots lacked judges' initials...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern

Posted on February 02, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirms trial court's refusal to compel arbitration in suit for credit card debt because Defendant did not admit in his answer that there was an arbitration provision. Lonnie D. Creech, Plaintiff-Respondent, v...

Refusal of the United States Supreme

Posted on January 28, 2008
Refusal of the United States Supreme Court to take writ of certiorari in Monsanto's case against Mississippi soybean farmer Homan McFarling means Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor Monsanto's damages verdict will stand. St Louis Business Journal...

St Louis area construction contractor

Posted on January 27, 2008
St Louis area construction contractor Alberici Group and two of its subsidiaries face breach of contract complaints in Alabama federal court from the Jim Walter Company of Tampa Florida for Alberici's disputed construction of coal mine shafts near Tuscaloosa, Alabama...

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Missouri State House Representative

Posted on January 27, 2008
Missouri State House Representative Bowman resigns from House after pleading guilty in federal court to bribery and fraud in obtaining credit cards from Bank of America. St Louis Business Journal.Missouri Rep. John Bowman, D-St. Louis County, submitted his resignation Friday from the Missouri House of Representatives after pleading guilty to bribing a bank official, U...

Author of the Rachel Gold series

Posted on January 27, 2008
Author of the Rachel Gold series of mysteries joins Bryan Cave law firm's intellectual property practice. St Louis Business Journal.Intellectual property attorney Michael Kahn, the newest partner in law firm Bryan Cave's St. Louis office, brings a bit of mystery with him to his new post...

Ringleader of St Louis mortgage

Posted on January 27, 2008
Ringleader of St Louis mortgage fraud scheme receives 44 month sentence in federal court after he admits he went on a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" spending spree as federal indictments loomed. St Louis Business Journal. The federal district court also ordered the defendant to pay $576,390 to 21 different banks and mortgage companies...

Missouri Supreme Court to hear

Posted on January 27, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court to hear Jefferson County eminent domain case. ST Louis Business Journal. Arnold dentist Dr. Homer Tourkakis challenged the city that wants to take his business through eminent domain. Last year, a Jefferson County judge ruled that the City of Arnold lacked constitutional authority to use eminent domain for private development, a ruling Arnold has appealed...

The American Lawyer gives Kansas

Posted on January 27, 2008
The American Lawyer gives Kansas City law firm Shook Hardy Bacon award for best product liability law firm in the country. KC Business Journal. Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has the country's best product liability practice among the top 200 law firms, according to trade publication The American Lawyer...

Merged law firms take on name Husch

Posted on January 27, 2008
Merged law firms take on name Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP. KC Business Journal. The merger of the two Missouri-based firms has not yet closed. A firm spokeswoman said the deal will close by the end of January or the beginning of February. The firms said Dec...

Missouri Public Service Commission

Posted on January 27, 2008
Missouri Public Service Commission trying to hammer out guidelines on holding closed-door meetings and preliminary talks with utilities before they acquire new businesses. KC Business journal. Transcripts of closed-door meetings and applying a "reasonable standard" for when utility regulators could meet with companies to discuss plans for such items as future power plants were among the topics discussed Monday morning in open hearings before the Missouri Public Service Commission...

St Louis pharmaceutical manufacturer

Posted on January 27, 2008
St Louis pharmaceutical manufacturer of Lipodissolve medications files for Chapter 11. KC Business Journal.Fig., once a leading provider of fat-melting Lipodissolve injections, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. The filing, made in U...

Crown Center Redevelopment Corp.

Posted on January 27, 2008
Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. offers property that houses Kansas City law firm Shook Hardy & Bacon for sale. KC Business Journal. The 2555 Grand building remains for sale, but Crown Center took 2600 Grand off the market because of current soft demand for office space.

Governor Blunt proposes tougher

Posted on January 27, 2008
Governor Blunt proposes tougher measures against mortgage fraud, to include added disciplinary powers over brokers and a new Class C felony for mortgage fraud. KC Business Journal. Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt announced proposals Monday to increase penalties against those who commit mortgage fraud, and he set up a toll-free hot line so Missourians at risk of foreclosure can get information...

Record year for corporate deal

Posted on January 27, 2008
Record year for corporate deal makers at KC law firm Stinson Morrison. KC Business Journal. Corporate attorneys at Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP served as lead counsel or co-counsel on more than $77 billion worth of corporate finance transactions in 2007, a dollar tally that's probably a record for the Kansas City-based firm...

Involuntary bankruptcy petition

Posted on January 27, 2008
Involuntary bankruptcy petition against Nova Star Home Mortgage. KC Business Journal. American Interbanc Mortgage LLC is seeking to force a subsidiary of NovaStar Financial Inc. into bankruptcy to collect a judgment rendered in June that with interest has reached $48...

Sprint/Nextel files new patent

Posted on January 27, 2008
Sprint/Nextel files new patent infringement lawsuits against voice-over-internet protocol providers. KC Business Journal.Sprint Nextel Corp., fresh off a $69.5 million verdict against Vonage Holdings for patent infringement in September, is suing four other companies on similar grounds...

Plaintiffs attorneys have filed

Posted on January 27, 2008
Plaintiffs attorneys have filed lawsuits in Jackson County Circuit Court and in the US District Court for the District of Kansas against drug companies who marketed cholesterol-reducing medications. KC Business journal. Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough, collaborators on the development and marketing of Vytorin and Zetia, were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court...

FDIC takes over only African-American-owned

Posted on January 27, 2008
FDIC takes over only African-American-owned bank in the metropolitan Kansas City region which was the first bank failure in Missouri since 1994.Feds close Douglass National Bank Kansas City Business Journal.The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed Douglass National Bank on Friday and named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...

Follow up: United States Supreme

Posted on January 27, 2008
Follow up: United States Supreme Court affirms Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Stoneridge that plaintiffs failed to state an action against alleged schemers in defendant's securities fraud. SEC Actions Blog. Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v...

Missouri Supreme Court affirms

Posted on January 20, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court affirms reduction of corporate taxpayers interest claim on tax over payments by nearly 1/3 when Missouri Legislature approved revamped interest provisions on tax over payments before the taxpayer won its case. Kidde America, Inc...

Missouri Supreme Court vacates

Posted on January 20, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court vacates defendant's guilty plea to violating 313.830.4(9), a Class D felony, defrauding a casino game, when the defendant admitted only to buying chips for $180 and exchanging them for nearly $500 of chips with the cashier's assistance who was his girlfriend...

Missouri Supreme Court keeps it

Posted on January 20, 2008
Missouri Supreme Court keeps it in the family: Plaintiffs in St Louis City Circuit Court class action against mortgage company obtained certification of a class that included any borrowers whom the defendant deceived into paying extra for credit reports...

Statute of limitations does not

Posted on January 20, 2008
Statute of limitations does not toll while Missouri resident moves from the state to reside in another during the limitations period. State of Missouri ex rel., Raymond Bloomquist, D.O., Relator v. The Honorable Nancy L. Schneider, Respondent. : SC88456Plaintiff in a medical malpractice case sued her doctor who while the limitations period was running became a Kansas resident...

Medical publisher fired a proof-reader

Posted on January 13, 2008
Medical publisher fired a proof-reader after he informed the company he intended to take leave to care for his sick wife who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("ALS" or "Lou Gehrig's disease) sued his employer under the Missouri Human Rights Act ...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern

Posted on January 13, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirms Wright County Circuit Court judgment that imposed constructive trust on property son acquired from deceased father's assets for his three sisters, but limits the constructive trust to assets the sisters could trace to their brother and his spouse...

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Posted on January 06, 2008
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses summary judgment against Plaintiff's estate for accident when decedent died after a Skyjack mobile platform tipped over on a construction site063855P.pdf 01/04/2008 Sammie Sappington v. Skyjack, Inc.U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-3855U...

Sprint's broadband radio division

Posted on January 06, 2008
Sprint's broadband radio division won a preliminary injunction against Michigan-based lessee of its broadband spectrum that wanted to merge with a Sprint competitor from the U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms temporary injunction, finding all conditions for a temporary injunction under Dataphase Sys...

Two Kansas City Police Department

Posted on January 01, 2008
Two Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) officers sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Jackson County Circuit Court to remove information of citizen complaints against them from their personnel records. The officers asked the circuit court to declare the Office of Citizens' Complaints OCC and the KCPD's practice of taking anonymous complaints to be contrary to 84...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern

Posted on January 01, 2008
Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District reverses wrongful death jury verdict that was in favor of deceased child run over on the highway when Plaintiff's verdict director instruction deviated from approved MAI 17.00 series of instructions, submitted an instruction on excessive speed when there was no evidence of excessive speed, and instructed the defendant's conjunctive liability for excessive speed and failure to use appropriate care...

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