Daily Record (St. Louis, MO/St. Louis Countian) articles from April 2002

Daily Record (St. Louis, MO/St. Louis Countian) archives from April 2002

City of St. Louis has awards luncheon for police.
April 4, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess The city of St. Louis honored its men and women in blue on Tuesday at the Fourth District Police Officer Awards, thanking them for their hard work and dedication to making downtown a safer place to work and to live....

Daily Record Citizenship Award: Judge has a passion for justice.
April 4, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess Judge Brenda Stith Loftin, a self-described drum major for justice, will be recognized for her passion with this year's Daily Record Citizenship Award. This award is given in recognition of distinguished service in the...

Women lawyers share war stories at legal seminar.
April 4, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess Presiding over the court, arguing cases in front of a jury, finding the perfect fit between lawyers and law firms, attending dance recitals and soccer games, leading lectures and organizations -- some women seem to do it...

Daily Record Woman of the Year: Happy circumstances led Professor Johnson to the law.
April 4, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter Sandra H. Johnson, this year's Daily Record Woman of the Year, is provost at Saint Louis University and professor of law at the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law, but it was only by...

Daily Record Justice Award presented.
April 4, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter Nancy Mogab, this year's recipient of the Daily Record Justice Award, wants to make a difference, and she has found that practicing workers' compensation law in Missouri is precisely where she is needed. Mogab,...

Advocates, law enforcement respond to public housing rule.
April 5, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 last week that government agencies could exercise public housing eviction policies over illegal drug possession involving a relative or guest of a resident, even if that resident is...

Paying rent with credit prompts mixed responses.
April 5, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon A rollout procedure of accepting credit cards for rent payments is being closely watched as it is introduced to the property management industry. Drew Schunk, vice president of the Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co.,...

Daily Record presents 2002 Women Justice Awards.
April 6, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess The honorees of the 2002 Daily Record Women Justice Awards annual dinner had common themes throughout their speeches: a love of serving and a love of the law. The dinner, held Thursday night before a packed crowd at the...

MO Bar elects new president-elect, vice president.
April 9, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess In response to Judge Richard Teitelman's resignation as president-elect of The Missouri Bar, Dale C. Doerhoff has been elected president-elect of The Missouri Bar, and Thomas M. Lang has been elected vice president of...

Court must decide if brokers are liable for undisclosed expenses.
April 9, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter The brokers that handled the sale of the assets of Roland Moving and Storage Inc. could be held liable for failing to disclose to the buyers more than $93,000 in outstanding expenses even though the buyers signed an...

Firemen's retirement ordinance ruled invalid.
April 10, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter A city ordinance pertaining to the retirement system for firefighters in the city of St. Louis is invalid because the Board of Aldermen passed it without first receiving a recommendation by the Civil Service...

Court rules against deposing of top Ford executives.
April 11, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter A family suing Ford Motor Co. for manufacturing and selling them a defective vehicle and tires may not depose the company's top executives without first attempting to obtain the necessary information from lower-level...

Prejudicial voir dire comment warrants mistrial.
April 11, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess An attorney for the city of Springfield's comment during voir dire to jurors, suggesting that a higher monetary award would result in raised taxes, was found to be prejudicial by the Missouri Supreme Court and warrants a...

Title insurers share benefit of strong real estate market.
April 12, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon Most consumers do not understand the workings of title insurance, but most have benefited from active presence of professionals in this industry and the part they play in property sales. So claims a report released last...

Petition seeks to control property tax amounts.
April 12, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon When all else fails, elected officials know they can turn to the public for the necessary muscle needed to push bill proposals that keep getting knocked down by other legislators and state executives. Such is the...

Domestic relations orders amendable after 10 years.
April 12, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess If an order dividing up marital property is intended to be a qualified domestic relations order, then it may be modified, even if more than a decade has passed, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The court did...

Immunity extends to co-employee in workers' compensation case.
April 12, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter Workers' compensation immunity extends to co-employees whose actions, although negligent, are within the scope of their employment, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday in a unanimous decision. The Supreme...

Annual Law Day Banquet scheduled.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess James E. McDaniel, a partner at Lashly & Baer P.C., will be honored with the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis' 2002 Distinguished Lawyer Award at this year's annual Law Day Banquet and Installation of Officers....

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri to be honored.
April 16, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess Legal Services of Eastern Missouri will be honored as a Mutual of America Foundation merit finalist at the Community Partnership Award Luncheon on May 17 at the Randall Gallery. LSEM is being recognized for its work with...

Local man designs new way to align tires.
April 16, 2002... Byline: Will Connaghan Innovation is simply defined by Webster's dictionary as "the introduction of something new." There are numerous things we take for granted in our daily lives that are truly innovative ideas. New prescription drugs,...

License collector loses appeal of valuation ruling.
April 17, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A manufacturer's valuation of taxes owed on its equipment was upheld by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, since the manufacturer used the fair market value in exchange to determine the valuation. The city...

Waiver of contingency does not void contract.
April 17, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter A homebuyer's waiver of a financing contingency in a real estate contract does not void the entire contract, said the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, paving the way for the would-be buyer of a Creve Coeur...

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis relocates.
April 18, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis announced Wednesday that it will move its headquarters to the Laclede Gas Building in December when its current lease with the Metropolitan Square Building expires. On...

Boundary dispute decided by adverse possession.
April 18, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A homeowner may now use his driveway since the rural road it was connected to was ruled to be his through adverse possession by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District. The homeowner had been using both the road...

Terrorism insurance sought by real estate pros.
April 19, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon Elected officials, insurance professionals and real estate specialists are calling on the federal government to take action that would protect not only business and building owners but the property securities industry...

Building industry happy with ergonomics plan.
April 19, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon Members of the Associated General Contractors and at least one member of the U.S. Senate confirm that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has finally gotten the idea that not all workplace situations can...

Diversity celebrated at bar assn.'s unity dinner.
April 19, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter The idea of unity among diverse people was celebrated Tuesday night as the Missouri Asian-American Bar Association and the Mound City Bar Association joined together to host their second annual unity dinner and to...

Survey shows general public's view of attorneys.
April 20, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A survey conducted by Columbia University School of Law found that the majority of the general public feels lawyers are dishonest and overpaid, and a large percentage found that lawyers did more harm than good. This news...

Garden director offers law students realistic look at the environment.
April 23, 2002... Byline: Elissa Fuchs Early on a Friday morning, Peter Raven gave a sobering lecture to Washington University law students on Americans' abuse of the environment. On March 15, Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, claimed that...

Immigration ruling ignored family's evidence.
April 23, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals that stated a family presented no evidence refuting their Croatian nationality was found to be incorrect by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last Thursday. In a split...

Contractors to get new breach of contract hearing.
April 24, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess Two construction contractors will have another chance to prove a breach of contract claim against the city of St. Louis. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, found that since the contractors would be the...

Corpse abandonment law not vague, court finds.
April 25, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A statute prohibiting someone from leaving a corpse without informing the proper authorities is not vague, ruled the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. A man who went to work and left his daughter at home with his wife's...

Largest commercial jury award in history of 8th Circuit upheld.
April 26, 2002... Byline: Erin Suess A St. Louis jury felt one company's breach of contract was worth $75 million, and Tuesday the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, upholding the largest commercial jury award in the 8th Circuit's history. Under the...

Building owners assn. welcomes security sessions.
April 26, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon A series of audio seminars scheduled to begin Friday is being embraced by the Building Owners and Managers Association as a tool they can use in the overall fight against terrorism and as a mechanism to improve general...

Survey shows homebuyers still dictate growth.
April 26, 2002... Byline: Mike Nixon More house for the money has been better for buyers and continues to be the driving factor in purchases, confirmed leaders of the National Association of Realtors as they prepared to release a consumer-based study last...

Wash. Univ. Law school rises in national rankings.
April 30, 2002... Byline: Elissa Fuchs U.S. News and World Reports offered good news to the Washington University Law School: an overall rank of the 25th best law school in the country in 2002. When the annual graduate school ranking edition of the magazine...

Spouse's disability retirement benefits wrongly considered nonmarital property.
April 30, 2002... Byline: Donna Walter The disability retirement benefits of a former postal worker were wrongly considered the man's nonmarital property even though he applied for the benefits six months after he filed for divorce. The Missouri Court...