Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from December 2007

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from December 2007

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: December 3, 2007.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Motion To Reopen - Delinquent Payments - Chapter 13 Where debtors in a Chapter 13 case moved to reopen their case after it was dismissed when they failed to make plan payments, the...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicare - Secondary Payer Statute - Standing Where an uninjured plaintiff brought actions under the Medicare Secondary Payer statute against medical care providers and insurers...

St. Louis Circuit Court finds man injured by train mostly at fault.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $625,000 with allocated fault A St. Louis jury returned a $4.1 million verdict in favor of a man who lost his legs after being struck by a Union Pacific train. But the jury allocated 85 percent fault to the...

St. Louis County Circuit Court rules home health care company did not defraud patient.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Defendant's verdict After 40 minutes of deliberation, a St. Louis County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of a home health care services company accused of defrauding a patient. "Plaintiff was trying...

commentary: Illegal immigrants don't deserve pro bono attorneys.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor: It is good to learn that lawyers are getting real legal training by doing pro bono work ("Pro bono policies changing for good," Nov. 12). I have a bit of a problem, however, in...

commentary: Bar's $500,000 to go toward supporting entire judicial system.(Missouri Bar Association)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor: The Missouri Bar has always been a strong supporter of the Non-Partisan Court Plan, and the Board of Governors believes it is essential to protect the Plan from becoming politicized or...

Commentary: Plan now, so your business won't suffer when you leave.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Myron E. Sildon Law firms need to understand the importance of succession for their clients. Without such a plan, the client's business will often fail upon the retirement or death of the owner. Typically, there is not a good...

St. Louis City Circuit Court's probate division unearths the Holy Grail of probate court.(book known as "Probate A" which holds early probate records is found )
December 3, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis City Circuit Court's probate division recently unearthed the record book that documents William Clark's assuming guardianship in 1813 of Sacagawea's baby daughter, Lizette Charbonneau, and Lizette's...

St. Louis firm is banking on change.(Herzog Crebs moves to Bank of America Tower )(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis firm Herzog Crebs is exiting One City Centre in September 2008 for the Bank of America Tower in an 8-year lease deal. The firm is taking a 22,000-square-foot floor of the 500,000-square-foot Bank of...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff President George W. Bush recently nominated Judge Gregory Kays, 45, of the 26th Judicial Circuit to fill a vacancy at the U.S District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Kays, a Republican,...

Eastern District saves the payday.(compensation terms)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A Kansas City law firm got an early stocking stuffer this year when the Missouri Court of Appeals found the firm was entitled to a 40 percent contingency fee and more than $200,000 in expenses for negotiating a...

Taum Sauk deal in Missouri expected to spur lots of comment.(Taum Sauk pumped storage plant's settlement)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka The $180 million consent judgment for the Taum Sauk dam collapse includes a 30-day comment period that allows the public to speak out about the deal before it's approved or rejected by Reynolds County Circuit Judge...

Commentary: The digital eyewitness.(use of event data recorders in accident reconstruction )
December 3, 2007... Byline: Terry D. Lewis The traditional methods of traffic accident reconstruction are rapidly heading toward obsolescence. The new computer-generated technologies are changing the manner in which future accident causation will be...

National labor, employment firms eye Missouri.(Jackson Lewis and Littler Mendelson)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart nabbed three attorneys to launch a St. Louis office in August, and two other large law firms specializing in labor and employment are looking to follow suit. National labor...

Mo. Court of Appeals Eastern District makes removal of corporate trustees easier.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole It just became a little easier for beneficiaries to switch bank trust companies. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Nov. 20 clarified who has to join a lawsuit to get a corporate trustee removed. ...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Physician's License - Disciplinary Action - Internet Prescriptions Where a doctor who prescribed weight-loss medication for an undercover agent posing as a patient received a...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Second- Degree Assault - Sufficiency Of Evidence Where a defendant was convicted of second-degree assault, defendant's pickup truck qualified as a deadly instrument and the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Negligence Damages - Set Off - Pretrial Settlement (1) Where an airline received a $3 million judgment on claims of breach of contract, product defect and negligence against an oil supplier...

St. Louis-based Solutia to emerge from bankruptcy.(Solutia Inc.)(Brief article)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole A source of fees for Blackwell Sanders and Spencer Fane Britt & Browne may start to dry up as St. Louis-based Solutia prepares to move out of bankruptcy. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the Southern District of...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: December 10, 2007.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association presented attorney John C. Dods III with its Lifetime Achievement Award and federal Judge John Lungstrum with the Joseph E. Stevens Aspire to Excellence...

Missouri Court of Appeals dismisses legal malpractice claim against St. Louis attorney.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A legal malpractice action against St. Louis attorney Joseph Frank was dismissed this week by the Missouri Court of Appeals because of the plaintiff's refusals to attend an independent medical examination. ...

Missouri Supreme Court considers whether inmate can sue his lawyer.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka The state Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether an inmate serving a life sentence can sue his attorney. The judges expressed a strong reluctance to rule as the trial court did, that the inmate's legal...

Discovery request is too broad, Missouri Supreme Court judges say.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka Trial court shouldn't have granted access to employment records, they say. The state Supreme Court said Tuesday that a St. Louis County judge erred in January when he ordered the handover of a nurse aide's...

Missouri Supreme Court decision says discovery is not a 'national database'.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck In an age when more and more lawsuits end in settlements rather than trials, fights can be as much over what to keep out of courts as what to bring in. Last week, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled on a matter that...

Jury critcizes Kansas City lawyer for crying during trial.(Grant Davis)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka Grant Davis insists he did not cry. The Kansas City plaintiffs' lawyer was standing before a jury in St. Louis County on Nov. 30, jabbing his legal pad at a Toronto newscast being projected onto the courtroom wall....

Budgeting for morale: Missouri-based Bryan Cave spends money to get best legal talent.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole New associates at Bryan Cave double as meal tickets. Under the "take a new lawyer to lunch" program at the firm, anyone who takes a first-year associate or lateral hire associate in their first year at the firm to...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: December 10, 2007.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Notice Of Appeal - Timeliness Where an appellant in a civil case failed to file a notice of appeal no later than 10 days after the judgment became final, the notice was...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: December 10, 2007.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript - Lack Of Certification - Jurisdiction Where an appellant did not file a written order for an official transcript and the transcript submitted did not have the...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: December 10, 2007.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Discovery - Personnel File - Overbroad (1) Where a trial court ordered a nursing home to produce the entire personnel file of an employee who was a witness but not a party to a...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: December 10, 2007.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Preliminary Injunction - Internet Provider Where a district court entered a preliminary injunction prohibiting a wireless internet service provider from merging with or entering...

Verdicts & Settlements December 10, 2007: Lack of medical tests leads to settlement.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $2 million settlement A patient has reached a $2,001,500 settlement in his medical malpractice case against a central Missouri hospital and surgeon. The defendants' identities were not disclosed pursuant to a...

Verdicts & Settlements December 10, 2007: Couple settles car accident case for $250,000.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $250,000 settlement A couple involved in a car accident while returning from their honeymoon has reached a $250,000 global settlement in their Cole County case against their respective insurance carriers. ...

Verdicts & Settlements December 10, 2007: Furniture outlet appeals verdict for delivery company.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole $150,000 verdict St. Louis company Weekends Only Furniture Outlet is appealing a $150,000 verdict in a lawsuit filed by a former delivery company for the retailer. Attorneys for Weekends Only on Nov. 16 filed...

Verdicts & Settlements December 10, 2007: Jury finds doctor's sample didn't kill patient.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos Defense verdict A Western Missouri doctor and medical center prevailed against a plaintiff who claimed a sample prescription lead to his mother's death. Everett Bowles, the son of Emma Bowles, sued Dr. John...

Commentary: Rules dictate use of business cards, designations.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Maridee F. Edwards A recent article on advertising pitfalls prompted several questions by readers worth sharing. Can I give my business cards to clients to distribute and offer them a discount on future services if they are the...

Two of Missouri's largest law firms put the finishing touches on renovations.(Bryan Cave and Lathrop and Gage)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The hammering has stopped and the dust has settled at two of Missouri's largest law firms. Bryan Cave and Lathrop & Gage each are wrapping up the multimillion-dollar renovations of their home offices undertaken...

Hannah Montana fan club, Kansas City lawyers' branch.(Hannah Montana concert draws in lawyers and their kids)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Tickets for a Dec. 3 Hannah Montana concert in Kansas City took on international importance at Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus. Chairman Russ Welsh said he was fielding requests for access to the 16 seats...

Blackwell Sanders partner joins 2007 $2B club.(Jim Ash)(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Joining the 2007 $2 billion deal club is Blackwell Sanders Partner Jim Ash, who led a team of the firm's attorneys representing Applebee's International Inc. in its sale to IHOP Corp. The transaction, valued at...

Missouri solos may gain protected vacation time.(small firm lawyers)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Kelly Wiese After years of effort by some Missouri lawyers, a Supreme Court committee is considering a rule requiring judges and other attorneys to respect lawyers' vacation plans. Solo and small firm lawyers in particular say...

Missouri's Bryan Cave boosts year-end associate bonuses.(Bryan Cave L.L.P.)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave is pumping up its associates' bonuses this year, but other Missouri-based firms won't necessarily be following suit. "Our bonuses will be more generous this year as a general matter than they were last...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Criminal Enterprise - 'Encouragement' - Sufficiency Of Evidence (1) Where a defendant suggested to friends that they rob and "gun" her grandfather, offered to buy them equipment...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Taxation - Discharge Even though federal and state taxing authorities did not file a proof of claim in a no-assets Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, the failure to file does not affect the...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Personal Jurisdiction - Foreign Defendants - Minimum Contacts Where a Minnesota resident brought an action for fraud based on a buyout of shares from a family-owned business...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Wrongful death suit ends in $9.5M verdict.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka $9.5 million verdict The family of a former pro hockey player killed in a Toronto drunk driving accident secured a record $9.5 million jury verdict in St. Louis County. It is the highest wrongful death or...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Motorcycle accident ends in $4.5 million settlement.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $4,575,280 settlement A motorcycle rider who suffered a traumatic brain injury settled his Jackson County personal injury case for $4,575,280 after the second day of trial. Basil Quesenberry and his...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Apartment fire prompts $1.5 million award.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos $1,500,130 verdict (apportioned for fault) A jury found a landlord and management company responsible for a 3-year-old boy's death but allocated some fault to the mother for trying to fight the fire that killed her...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Truck driver settles accident claim for $375,000.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Tom Herrmann $307,000 settlement (adjusted for work comp portion) An over-the-road truck driver has received a $375,000 settlement for injuries suffered in a traffic accident on a rain-slick roadway in Perry County, said his...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Doctor off the hook for misdiagnosis of headaches.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter Defense verdict A St. Louis County jury said a doctor was not liable for failing to diagnose the reason his 73-year-old patient was having headaches. When William Briggs went to Dr. Robert Byrne complaining of...

Commentary: Neal case adds to negative perception of lawyers.(Deborah Neal)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Dan Margolies The saga of the Kansas City municipal judge who went to prison for soliciting loans from lawyers is triply unfortunate. Unfortunate because Deborah Neal was a promising lawyer and jurist before a gambling habit...

Hannah Montana fan club, Kansas City lawyers' branch.(Hannah Montana concert draws lawyers and their kids)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Tickets for a Dec. 3 Hannah Montana concert in Kansas City took on international importance at Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus. Chairman Russ Welsh said he was fielding requests for access to the 16 seats...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: December 17, 2007.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Clifford Brown, shareholder at Springfield firm Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, was elected as a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. The college is a national organization,...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Criminal Enterprise - 'Encouragement' - Sufficiency Of Evidence (1) Where a defendant suggested to friends that they rob and "gun" her grandfather, offered to buy them equipment...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Taxation - Discharge Even though federal and state taxing authorities did not file a proof of claim in a no-assets Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, the failure to file does not affect the...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: December 17, 2007.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Personal Jurisdiction - Foreign Defendants - Minimum Contacts Where a Minnesota resident brought an action for fraud based on a buyout of shares from a family-owned business...

Verdicts & Settlements December 17, 2007: Railroad settles personal injury lawsuit.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter $325,000 settlement The Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad Co. settled a lawsuit filed by a 50-year-old truck driver for $325,000. The driver, Gary M. Graham, was eastbound on a gravel road in Barton...

Commentary: Neal case adds to negative perception of lawyers.(Deborah Neal)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Dan Margolies The saga of the Kansas City municipal judge who went to prison for soliciting loans from lawyers is triply unfortunate. Unfortunate because Deborah Neal was a promising lawyer and jurist before a gambling habit...

commentary: Article unfairly condemned real emotion in courtroom.(Letter to the editor)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor: "Tears of Ploy" on the front page of your paper last week could not be more misleading from the cause of justice served by the hard-working St. Louis County jury that rendered justice in...

commentary: Ramage trial article was sensationalistic, gratuitous.(Letter to the editor)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor: Allison Retka's Dec. 10 front-page article "Tears of Ploy" represents the worst in journalism and has no business appearing in a serious legal newspaper as important as yours is to the...

Commentary: What Karl Rove, Darth Vader and MOLW have in common.(Missouri Lawyers Weekly )(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor: Your recent article, "Tears of Ploy" by Allison Retka, was more worthy of publication in some of Karl Rove's writings than in your otherwise fine paper. The blatant theme of the...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: December 24, 2007.(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff William M. Corrigan Jr., partner at the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale, has been reappointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to serve another three-year term as President of the Board of Trustees of The...

Commentary: Twas the night before deadline.(Poem)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco Twas the night before deadline, when all through the courts, The hand downs were slowing, with rarely a tort, The law clerks were packing their laptops up tight, In hopes of a break from...

Verdicts & Settlements December 24, 2007: Union Pacific settles with employee for $4.5M.(Wayne Transmeier)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Will Conaghan A $4.5 million settlement has been reached in the case of a Union Pacific railroad employee who suffered severe injuries, including an above-the-knee amputation of his leg, when he became trapped beneath the wheel of...

Blackwell Sanders, Husch approve merger.(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Staff Report Partners at Blackwell Sanders and Husch & Eppenberger voted to merge the two firms. The combination, expected to close in late January, will create a 630-attorney firm with anticipated revenue of $275 million in...

Wichita-based Koch Industries tries to oust attorneys from case.(attorneys from Dowd Bennett and Nester and Constance)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Defense attorneys in a lawsuit over cleaning up a former refinery site are alleging Bryan Cave helped one of the firm's clients sue another. Wichita-based Koch Industries Inc. wants St. Louis law firm Dowd Bennett...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District clarifies how to quantify blight.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Chris Blank A Missouri appellate court, applying changes to the state's eminent domain law for the first time, has upheld a blight finding in downtown Kansas City. The ruling, which hinges on how to measure the degree of blight...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Bennett's big year.(Jim Bennett of Dowd Bennett)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Jim Bennett was an integral part of two of the biggest jury trials in St. Louis over a 12-month span ending in November. In the first case, Bennett co-represented Structural Polymer Systems, Ltd., a British building...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Eminent knowledge.(Jerry Carmody)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Chris Blank Jerry Carmody is a leader in eminent domain law and served on the special gubernatorial task force studying the taking of private property. But when he first dug into condemnation cases, he says he knew nothing about...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Letting sun shine on ethics.(Carl J. Lumley)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Creve Coeur city attorney Carl J. Lumley represented his small municipality in challenging a state agency - and won. The underlying matter involved complaints filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission against Creve...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Doing his homework.(John Munich)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos You can't outfox a fox unless, well, you're a fox. Likewise, you can't effectively cross-examine an expert witness unless you become an expert on the subject yourself. That is John Munich's strategy. Munich, a...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Billions and billions served.(Bill Seabaugh)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bill Seabaugh and his Bryan Cave transactions team rode a wave of merger and acquisitions deals in 2007, representing some familiar St. Louis names - Ralcorp, Energizer, TALX and Monsanto - in some of their biggest...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Fighting on two fronts.(Curtis E. Woods)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole On Nov. 7, the mortgage fraud task force of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri lost its first case. Curtis E. Woods was partly responsible for that. He was the defense attorney for former...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Court plan leader.(J. Dale Youngs)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos Blackwell Sanders partner J. Dale Youngs wasn't expecting a leadership position at the Missouri Institute for Justice when he was summoned by Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Ann Mesle to the institute's annual...

Missouri Lawyer of the Year: Karl H. Timmerman.(Interview)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Betsy Lee With the grace of a daily smoker, Karl Timmerman pulls a Winston cigarette to his lips. Pausing in his speech, he inhales. "It's one of the only vices I have left," he says as he exhales a tendril of smoke. He...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Comfortable in court.(Alok Ahuja)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Victoria Siegel This was a good year for the clients of Lathrop & Gage who had Alok Ahuja handling their appeals. It was especially good for the firm's oldest client, BNSF Railway Co. Using the Resource Conservation and...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: A community's presence.(Walter L. Metcalfe Jr.)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Victoria Siegel The list of Walter L. Metcalfe Jr.'s board participation reads like a Who's Who of St. Louis cultural and educational institutions: Washington University, BJC HealthCare, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Pulitzer...

Missouri Lawyers of the Year: Watching the human side.(James Ash)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Chris Blank A long-time client of Blackwell Sanders attorney James Ash had a problem. Activist stockholders were asking for more profits while revenues continued to decline. As fuel prices climbed and competition from other casual...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: December 24, 2007.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Inadequate Brief - Legal File Where a father appealed a trial court's custody modification with an amended brief that contained insufficient points relied on and...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: December 24, 2007.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Admission Of Evidence - Failure To Object - Waiver Where a defendant's renewed motion to suppress evidence was denied by the trial court and the defendant did not object when...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: December 24, 2007.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicaid - Breach Of Contract - Statute Of Limitations Where Kansas hospitals provided services to Missouri Medicaid beneficiaries under a provider agreement with the Missouri...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: December 24, 2007.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Default Judgment - Motion To Set Aside - Standard Of Review Where a trial court set aside a default judgment based on an affidavit from the defendant's agent claiming that he...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: December 24, 2007.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Restrictive Covenant - Non- Compete - Legitimate Business Interest Where an insulation supplier brought an action to enforce a restrictive covenant against a lumber company in a...

Verdcits & Settlements December 24, 2007: KC contractor wins suit over highway project.(Kansas City)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Will Connaghan $2.2 million verdict A Kansas City contractor has received a $2.2 million jury verdict against the Missouri Department of Transportation for work it performed on the construction of the Bruce R. Watkins...

Verdicts & Settlements December 24, 2007: Jury awards $644,000 for fall down elevator shaft.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Charles Emerick $644,000 verdict A woman's fatal fall down an elevator shaft has cost its manufacturer more than $600,000. A St. Louis jury determined that Otis Elevator Co. was negligent by not having the elevator...

Verdicts & Settlements December 24, 2007: Train engineer receives $760K for neck, back injuries.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka $761,347 verdict A train engineer who suffered neck and back injuries after a chain of six railroad cars ran into the locomotive he was operating received more than $760,000 from a St. Louis jury. The...