Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2005

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2005

Four Washington University School of Law major conferences in St. Louis.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff This fall the Washington University School of Law is hosting four major conferences that focus on corporate governance, intellectual property scholarship, commercialization of innovation and the First...

Missouri Supreme Court rules doctor not to be disciplined for ordinary negligence.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff An obstetrician's negligent failure to refer his patient to a perinatologist did not provide the basis for discipline by the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts for gross negligence, repeated...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 1, 2005.(appointments)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis Area Charles Hansen, of counsel with Bryan Cave, has been honored with a named professorship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The endowed professorship is a gift from...

U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Law Of The Case - Summary Judgment - Second Filing Where the district court in a civil rights case allowed the defendant city to file a second motion for summary judgment, the...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Appellate Panel Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Attorney's Fees - Dischargeability - Misrepresentation Where an attorney who represented a client in the modification of a dissolution decree claimed the client's debt to him for...

MO. Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Discovery - Sanctions - Default Judgment Where a trial court sanctioned a defendant in a civil case for failure to comply with discovery by striking the defendant's pleadings...

MO. Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Mootness - Settlement Agreement - Case Vacated Where parties in a civil case entered into a written settlement agreement and agreed that the trial court's judgment should be...

MO. Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.(Missouri)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Repayment Of Fees - Contempt - Commitment Where a trial court ordered the commitment for contempt of an attorney who refused to repay his partial attorney's fees in a probate case in...

Verdicts & Settlements(Aug. 1, 2005): Man suffers brain injury after accident with semi.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $3.5 million settlement A 26 year old man has settled his case against a moving company after an accident with one of the company's tractor-trailer's resulted in a brain injury. Terry A....

Circuit Court of Clay County clears two doctors in wrongful death case.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's verdict A Clay County jury has ruled in favor of two doctors who were accused of medical malpractice that resulted in the wrongful death of a patient. The case involved a 30-year-old...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 1, 2005: Defendant pays $625K for car accident injury.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $625,000 Settlement A Buckner, Mo., plaintiff, who was injured in a vehicle accident and claimed negligence and lost income, settled with the defendant for $625,000. The plaintiff filed suit...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug.1, 2005: St. Louis pays fraction of demand in eminent domain case.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $500,000 Verdict A St. Louis jury awarded $500,000 to a hotel property owner for the hotel's loss of abutter's rights and the economic viability of the property. The defendant property owner had...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 1, 2005: Man deceived into surrendering mobile home.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $358,355 verdict A man who claimed loss of credit and emotional distress from being deceived into transferring title to his mobile home back to a finance company was awarded $358,355 for the...

Commentary: MO. Supreme Court clears up child custody issue.(Missouri)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Douglas Fredrick Earlier this month, the Missouri Supreme Court handed down an opinion that clarified the second prong of what had become a muddled issue among the courts. The overall issue was, when determining who will receive...

Lawyers without boundaries.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Amanda C. Tinnin Practicing law has always been a profession without boundaries. A law license, on the other hand, had its geographical limits. The Missouri Supreme Court has adopted multi-jurisdictional rules to insulate...

Missouri Bar election ballots mailed this week.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Ballots for five contested Board of Governors' elections were mailed this week to Missouri Bar members in Districts 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11. Any bar member in good standing who named one of these districts on...

Trends in nursing home litigation.
August 1, 2005... Byline: John DeMoor When St. Louis defense attorney Stephen Strum finished his closing argument on behalf of a nursing home client earlier this year in Hannibal, Mo., he and his uninsured client were prepared and almost eager to hand over...

Association of Trial Lawyers of America bans media from its annual convention.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Just a week before its annual convention, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America announced it was banning media from the event. Press passes and media guidelines had already been issued to many...

2005 Judicial Omnibus Bill's definitions of "notary public" and "notary" are amended.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Under the 2005 Judicial Omnibus Bill (SB 420), Section 486.200(5), RSMo., which defines the words "notary public" and "notary" as used in Sections 486.200 to 486.405, is amended to read as follows: ...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 8, 2005.(appointments)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis Area Michael J. Smith and Stephen G. Reuter have joined the law firm of Lashly & Baer as members and Tricia J. Mueller and Nancy R. Vidal have joined as associates. They concentrate their...

8th Circuit strikes down as unconstitutional Minnesota's nonpartisan judicial elections.(cases)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week struck down as unconstitutional campaign rules prohibiting candidates for judicial office in Minnesota from engaging in partisan political activities and soliciting...

Law professor at St. Louis University discusses judicial activists on the U.S. Supreme Court.(Roger Goldman)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Much has been written about President Bush's desire to appoint a strict constructionist to the U.S. Supreme Court, and presumably he is doing so with the nomination of John Roberts, but the question...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 8, 2005.(cases)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicare - Reimbursements - Denial Where hospitals appealed a denial of their claims for Medicare reimbursements by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the secretary's...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: August 8, 2005.(cases)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Writ Of Prohibition - Confidential Documents - Mootness Where a defendant in a products liability case sought a writ of prohibition prohibiting enforcement of a judgment that...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 8, 2005.(cases)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law First- Degree Murder - Pregnant Woman - Unborn Child Where a defendant was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a woman whom he knew was pregnant with his child, an unborn...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 8, 2005.(Jerry Bennett Masonry v. Crossland Construction Co. Inc.)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Points Relied On - Failure To Claim Error - Contract For Deed Where a plaintiff in a dispute over a contract for deed failed to appeal the judgment against them on the breach...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 8, 2005.(cases)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Officer Suspension - Use Of Force - Discretion Where a police superintendent ordered an eight-hour suspension of an officer for an unjustified use of force after the officer shot...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 8, 2005: Sister-in-law prevails in determination of title case.(cases)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $507,000 verdict A St. Louis County jury awarded assets from a decedent's estate to his sister-in-law in a declaratory judgment and determination of title case. The estate's representative had...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 8, 2005: Jury rules against insurance company for breach of contract.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff A Jackson County jury awarded $64,424 to a plaintiff that filed a breach of contract and vexatious refusal claim against his insurance company when they refused payment for vandalism to his vehicle. The...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 8, 2005: Borrowers prevail against bank for charging fees.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1,190,137 verdict A St. Louis County judge awarded nearly $1.2 million to plaintiffs as part of a class action suit against a bank that had been charging borrowers a document preparation fee in...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 8, 2005: Woman injured after car struck horse lying in road.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's verdict A woman injured after the car she was riding in hit a horse has lost her Camden County personal injury suit against the horse's owner. Plaintiff Tanya Battison was a...

Auto fraud law involves anything related to sale of an automobile.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Amanda C. Tinnin Chinese-American writer Lin Yutang said, "When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice." By that philosophy, justice should flourish in the rare practice of auto fraud. About 16 million new cars...

Part II: Exploring the latest trends in nursing home litigation.
August 8, 2005... Byline: John DeMoor Editor's Note: This is the second part of an expanded three part series exploring the latest trends in nursing home litigation. Next week's edition will discuss the nursing home industry's use of binding arbitration...

Experts say Missouri rules governing judicial conduct are less restrictive than Minnesota rules.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The 8th Circuit recently took its cue from the U.S. Supreme Court and found that two additional clauses of Canon 5 of the Minnesota Supreme Court's Canons of Judicial Conduct are unconstitutional. Although Missouri...

MO Court of Appeals rules property owners have claim to sue for ground/water contamination.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Jessica Simmons Property owners who noticed a strong odor of gasoline and a rainbow sheen on water from their well have actionable continuing trespass and temporary nuisance claims against a gas company even though the lawsuit was...

American Bar Association releases pro bono survey.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff According to a new survey, 66 percent of lawyers gave free legal assistance to people of limited means and organizations serving the poor, volunteering an average of 39 hours of such work during a year....

Charles W. Freeman III joins China Alliance.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff As of September 1, 2005, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for China Affairs Charles W. Freeman III will join The China Alliance, a legal business advisory group that offers clients the most...

MO. Lawyers in the News:.(Burroughs, Helper, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank and True )
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis Area Herzog Crebs announces that Matthew M. McCarthy has become a partner in the firm and Daniel G. Cierpiot and Tracy A. Beckham have become associates. *** Burroughs, Helper,...

Confidential settlement reached for man crushed by roof of tractor trailer.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Confidential settlement The family of a man who was killed when his tractor trailer rolled has settled their wrongful death suit against the truck's manufacturer. On June 8, 1999, Darrell O'Dell...

Commentary: Selecting a witness who is truly an expert.
August 15, 2005... Byline: John G. Schultz Most lawyers spend considerable time researching an opposing expert before cross-examining the expert at a deposition or during trial. The same investigative intensity is often lacking when it comes to selecting an...

U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: Aug. 15, 2005.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Fair Housing Act - Housing Projects - Neutral Objectives Where a tenant association claimed proposed housing projects would violate the Fair Housing Act, the housing authority...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Appellate Panel: Aug. 15, 2005.(cases)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Student Loans - Discharge - Undue Hardship Where a debtor's reasonable future financial resources would allow her to make student loan payments and maintain a minimal standard of...

MO. Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: Aug. 15, 2005.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgments - Finality - Pending Claims Where a counterclaim remained pending in a civil case, there was no final judgment so the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is...

MO. Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: Aug. 15, 2005.(G&S Masonry Inc. v. MJC Construction Inc.)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Arbitration Provision - Enforceability - Amount In Controversy Where a parties' subcontract provided for arbitration if the amount in controversy was less than $50,000, the trial...

MO. Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: Aug. 15, 2005.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Employee Disqualification List - Collateral Estoppel - Nursing Home Deaths Where a nursing home administrator was found to have "recklessly neglected" four elderly patients who...

$1M settlement awarded to corporate CEO for loss of vision.(Plaintiff v. Shaw and ABC Hospital)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1 Million Settlement A 47-year-old CEO of an international company based in Kansas City settled with his doctor and hospital for the loss of vision to his left eye. The settlement with the doctor was...

Verdicts & Settlements (Aug. 15, 2005) $400K awarded: Death after oxygen levels drop during surgery.(Moton v. Anesthesia Partners Ltd.)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $400,000 Settlement The family of a man who died shortly after undergoing an unsuccessful surgery has settled its St. Louis City medical malpractice suit with the anesthesiologist's practice. This was...

Verdicts & Settlements (Aug. 15, 2005): $250K awarded to heirs of woman who died from car wreck.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $250,000 Settlement Heirs of an elderly woman who died from injuries sustained in a car wreck have settled their two separate Johnson County actions for wrongful death and survival for a total of...

Verdicts & Settlements(Aug. 15, 2005): 2 policemen win civil rights claim of $200K against MO. city.(cases)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $200,000 Verdict Two former police officers were awarded $200,000 in their civil rights claim against the City of St. Peters, Mo., for wrongful termination. The two plaintiff officers had sued in...

Five former insurance agents awarded $20M claim from State Farm Insurance.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Five former State Farm insurance agents who claimed that they were terminated after publicly speaking out about the company's management practices have won $20 million in their Jackson County breach of contract and...

U.S. District Court Western District of MO. rules parental immunity rejected in personal injury case.(cases)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Amanda C. Tinnin Where a father ran over his child's foot with his employer's lawnmower while mowing on the employer's property, parental immunity did not protect the employer from the child's respondeat superior and negligence...

MO. COA Western District rules employee suffered a compensable injury while traveling home.
August 15, 2005... Byline: John DeMoor Where an electrician was killed in a car accident while driving home from a night class paid by his employer, the Missouri Court of Appeals' Western District found that his death was compensable under the mutual benefit...

Missouri Univ. - Columbia Law School welcomes new faculty.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Missouri University Columbia Law School welcomes faculty members Frank O. Bowman III, Martha Dragich Pearson and Rigel Oliveri. Bowman has recently been appointed as the Floyd R. Gibson...

Missouri Bar gets recognition for its community library project.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Missourians who go to their community library looking for answers to legal questions are more likely to succeed, thanks to a community education project that has recently received national recognition....

Gov. Blunt elevates Judge Mike Jamison to circuit judge.(Matt Blunt)(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Judge Mike Jamison was elevated by Gov. Matt Blunt on Friday from St. Louis County associate circuit judge to circuit judge. He replaces Judge Kenneth Romines, whom Blunt appointed to the Eastern...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis Area Jana G. Flynn and Leslie T. Tolliver are new assistant public defenders in the St. Louis City Public Defender's Office. William E. Tucker is a new assistant public defender in the...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Agriculture - Production Contract - Land Restoration Where a plaintiff who inherited land from his father requested that the land be restored to eligibility under the Production...

Missouri Bar Legislative Digest offers list of 2005 bills online.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Missouri Bar Legislative Digest has put together a list of the bills that made it through the 2005 legislative process. The publication, accessible online at...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 74.01(b) - Unresolved Claims - Finality Where a party in a civil case appealed from a trial court order denying its motion to dismiss, the order was improperly certified...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Rule 74.04 - Summary Judgment - Exhibit Admissibility Where a party in a fraud case argued that a motion for summary judgment was not supported as required under Rule 74.04, the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.(Sunshine Law and Welfare Exception for Public Housing Tenant )
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Sunshine Law - 'Welfare' Exception - Public Housing Tenant Where a plaintiff sought information from a city housing authority about Section 8 housing tenants including their...

New bankruptcy act will effect businesses.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Kevin Checkett The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) was enacted April 20, but most of the bill goes into effect on October 17, 2005. This new legislation adds or amends innumerable sections in the...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 22, 2005: Salesman wins breach of contract claim for unpaid commissions.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $2,555,635 verdict A Cass County jury awarded a salesman nearly $2.6 million for a breach of contract claim for unpaid commissions and the fair market value of stock from the companies with whom he...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 22, 2005: Landowners get big verdict for less than 10 acres.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $409,000 verdict Owners of a small parcel of land in rural Randolph County have netted a big verdict. The State Highway Department condemned 9.93 acres in November 2003 in order to widen...

Verdicts & Settlements August 22, 2005: Girl said she did not provoke dog that mauled her.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Confidential settlement The family of a girl mauled by a dog has settled its Wyandotte County personal injury case against the animal's owners. On Nov. 8, 2003 Tyler Thomas, then 10, was...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 22, 2005: Toddler who drowned in sanitation pond.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendants' Verdict The unwed parents of a 2-year old boy were denied a recovery by a Clay County jury in a wrongful death action. On May 16, 1998, Michael Fields, the two-your old son of...

Verdicts & Settlements Aug. 22, 2005: Wrist restraints removed from patient with history of falling.(case of medical malpractice )
August 22, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Confidential Settlement A deceased plaintiff's widow settled her medical malpractice claim with a Kansas City medical facility for a confidential amount. The widow claimed that the hospital failed...

Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair to be held in Kansas City.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The KCMBA's Managing Partner and Diversity Committees have undertaken a first-of-its-kind Diversity initiative in the Kansas City area. The Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair (HDLJF) will be held on...

Five new members elected to Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar.(appoinments)(Brief Article)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The lawyers of Missouri, voting in districts throughout the state, have elected five new members to the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar and retained 13 incumbents for new terms. Voting at the...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 29, 2005.(appointments)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis Area Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale announces that William M. Lawson has joined the firm as an officer in the Labor & Employment Practice Group. *** Diane M. Monahan has moved from...

Commentary: Hospital-physician joint ventures.
August 29, 2005... Byline: William H. Fischer and David B. Pursell While hospitals and physicians have always depended on each other, over time they have begun to see each other, at times, as competitors. The downward pressure on payment exerted by insurance...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Contractor's leg ripped off by assembly line equipment.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $3,276,000 settlement An independent contractor who lost his leg on a crossover platform has settled his products liability suit for more than $3 million. Both parties have requested to remain...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Doctor not at fault for aorta puncture.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Verdict A St. Louis County jury found a St. Louis doctor and hospital not at fault for the death of a patient whose aorta was punctured as part of a pacemaker placement surgery. The...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Man killed in traffic collision.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.025 Million Settlement Defendant trucking companies settled with family members and the estate of a deceased man who was killed in a collision near Boonville, Mo. The plaintiffs were given just...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgments - Finality - Dissolution Where the judgment of a trial court in a dissolution did not dispose of the wife's motion to modify custody, motion to modify child...

The MO Bar honors Steven N. Cousins with Excellence in Bankruptcy Award.(Missouri)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Steven N. Cousins, member of the Executive Committee, as well as founder and Practice Group Leader of Armstrong Teasdale's Financial Restructuring, Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice, was recognized...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Woman slipped on ice from leaking water pipe.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $224,000 settlement A woman has settled her personal injury case against the city of Kansas City. At about 7 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2003, Ronda Reyes fell directly in front of her house on ice which...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Hospital upheld standard of care.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's verdict A couple has lost their St. Louis County medical malpractice case. Saundra Hartwell filed a medical malpractice action against Missouri Baptist Medical Center for injuries...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Public Housing - Revitalization Plan - Disparate Impact Where housing authority tenants showed that closing units in a public housing complex would have a disparate impact on...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 29, 2005.(Brief Article)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Settlement Sum - Proceeds - Involuntary Bankruptcy Where the bankruptcy court found that a plaintiff could not recover any of the proceeds of a settlement sum that had been paid but...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Sentencing - Persistent Sexual Offender - 'Without Probation' Where a trial court found a defendant to be a persistent sexual offender but did not indicate in his sentence that...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgment - Finality - Certification Where an action for accounting remained pending in a civil case, the trial court abused its discretion in certifying an order for the...

MO Court of Appeals upholds Form 14 in calculating child support in 3rd party custody situations.(Missouri)
August 29, 2005... Byline: John DeMoor Where the Family Support Division issued an administrative order for a mother to provide insurance and child support for a child in state custody, the agency did not err by using Form 14 for its calculations in a...

First verdict in more than 4,000 Vioxx lawsuits is in; Merck found liable for man's death.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Amanda C. Tinnin The first verdict in more than 4,000 Vioxx lawsuits is in. A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who took the painkiller and awarded his widow $253.4 million in damages....