Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from January 2007

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from January 2007

St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker releases book.('The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of 'Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault')(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert H. Dierker has written a book that he says exposes the liberal subversion of the American judicial system and critics say undercuts his ability to impartially rule on a host of...

Missouri law firm donates fees from civil rights case to launch program for foster children.(Shook, Hardy and Bacon L.L.P.)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Shook, Hardy & Bacon recently donated its entire fee from a civil rights victory involving adopted children to Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Assistance (MFCAA). The MFCAA will use a large part...

Missouri law firms announce personnel changes and promotions.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The St. Louis legal community helped raise nearly $1,500 for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St Louis' Project Angel Tree during a "Shop 'Till You Drop"...

Missouri court upholds four-year limit for old-debt suit.(D.A.N. Joint Venture v. Clark )
January 8, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck A Dec. 26 decision in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, was a poor Christmas present for a Missouri debt-buyer. The court upheld a trial court's decision that D.A.N. Joint Ventures was unable to...

Missouri court rules bond must be paid to modify parental custody agreement.(Miller v. Miller )
January 8, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons A parent owing past due child support payments may not seek to modify a child custody and visitation agreement unless the parent posts bond as required by Missouri law, the Missouri court of appeals ruled. While the...

A review of a book written by an experienced judge.(The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The author is an experienced judge of the 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri, serving the City of St. Louis. He has presided over many civil and criminal trials. Prior to his judicial appointment, he...

Missouri court rules lead poisoning is not linked to paint maker.(City of St. Louis v. Benjamin Moore & Company, et al.)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Without seeming particularly happy about it, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming a paint company was responsible for lead-based paint found in older...

Missouri law firms consider leave programs.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole R. Lawrence Ward got back in December from a two-month leave that included lots of golfing, trips to Colorado to see his son sworn in as a member of the bar and for Thanksgiving, and visits to his children,...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: January 8, 2007.(Roberts Plaza v. 4915 LLC)(Penn v. State)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Notice Of Appeal - Default Judgment - Timeliness Where a tenant, which was the subject of a rent and possession action, filed its notice of appeal of a default judgment 13 days...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: January 8, 2007.(Whitehorn v. City of Poplar Bluff)(Law Offices of Gary Green v. Morrissey )
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgment On Interpleader - Finality Where a trial court entered a judgment for defendants who filed a counterclaim and third-party petition in interpleader, the judgment was...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: January 8, 2007.(Gillespie v. Rice)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Death Of Plaintiff - Substitution Of Party - Timeliness Where a plaintiff died while her appeal of her medical negligence case was pending and the executrix of her estate failed...

U.S. Bank Court Case Summaries: January 8, 2007.(Kukowski v. Wagner )(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Exemption - Annuity Payments - North Dakota Law Where a debtor received payments under an annuity as the result of a settlement agreement with an insurance company, under North...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: January 8, 2007.(Mayo Foundation v. Surface Transportation Board, et al.)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Railroad Construction - Approval Of Project - NEPA Where a railroad corporation proposed to build 240 miles of new rail and upgrade more than 600 miles of rail, the Surface...

Verdicts and Settlements January 8, 2007: Missouri store settles for $130K in slip-and-fall suit.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck $130,000 settlement A woman who injured her knee after slipping in a puddle won a $130,000 settlement from the store that had failed to clean up the spill. On Dec. 6, 2002, Delores Crownover went to Cargo...

Verdicts & Settlements January 8, 2007: FedEx to pay $4.4 million for auto accident injuries.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons $4.4 million verdict A Jackson County jury ordered FedEx Ground to pay $4.4 million for injuries a man suffered after being rear-ended by a leased semi-cab tractor truck traveling at 70 mph. The verdict...

Verdicts and Settlements January 8, 2007: Missouri high school pays over $350K for negligence.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $351,649 verdict A Jackson County jury deliberated for less than two hours before siding with a high school student who fractured his larynx playing basketball during a freshman gym class. The jury awarded...

Insight to some legal obstacles.(pay for performance)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Michael R. Costa In response to concerns over the quality of care in American medicine, private and public third-party payers are experimenting with financial incentives, known as "pay for performance" (P4P), that reward health...

Charities to deal with real estate tax reform and appeal.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey A. Baskies Many of us are actively involved with a wide range of charitable institutions. One question that arises in the current climate is: what should charities do or say with respect to the estate tax repeal/reform...

Missouri State Auditor faults Attorney General's Office for personal cell phone use.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Cell phones and Blackberries might be great timesavers for busy lawyers, but they don't always make the accountants happy. A recent report from the Missouri State Auditor faulted the Missouri Attorney General's...

St. Louis law firm earns award from Department of Defense organization.(Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale P.C.)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis firm Greensfelder Hemker & Gale's accommodations for an Illinois National Guard member earned the firm an award from a Department of Defense organization. The Missouri Committee for...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: January 15, 2007.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Confrontation Clause - Crawford - Child Victim Where a child sexual abuse victim showed an extreme change in behavior and emotional reaction to the mention of the defendant's...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: January 15, 2007.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Attorney Discipline - Withholding Client's Property - Collection Of Legal Fees (1) Where an immigration attorney notified a former client that he would withhold a labor certification...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: January 15, 2007.(Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Association v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. (MLW No. 55228))(On Target Sporting Goods, Inc. v. Attorney General, et al. (MLW No. 55224))(Granda v. City of St. Louis, et al. (MLW No. 55223))
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Wireless Service - Rural Carriers - Access Fees Where an association of rural telephone carriers challenged a decision of the Iowa Utilities Board prohibiting the carriers from...

Verdicts and Settlements January 15, 2007: Missouri sheriff wins $5M in premises liability case.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A deputy sheriff who inhaled ammonia while investigating an alleged methamphetamine laboratory won $5 million in his Franklin County premises liability case. Jason Grellner claimed that he was permanently injured...

Verdicts and Settlements January 15, 2007: Missouri bar pays $500K for drunken driving accident.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole $500,000 settlement A bar/restaurant's insurer agreed to pay the $500,000 policy limit to a passenger who was severely injured in a drunken driving car accident. The amount is about as much as the passenger, a...

Verdicts and Settlements January 15, 2007: AAI Corp. settles for $500K over employee's car accident.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole $500,000 settlement Plaintiff's attorneys in a car crash case landed what one of the attorneys said was one of the larger St. Louis County settlements in several years for fracture injuries that led to a hip...

2007 State of the Judiciary Address.(Michael A. Wolff of Supreme Court of Missouri)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Michael A. Wolff Michael A. Wolff, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered the following State of the Judiciary address Wednesday, during a joint session of the General Assembly in Jefferson City, Mo. As the...

Attorneys' fight over fees reaches Missouri appeals court.(Norton Beilenson, Susan Roach)(Roach Law Firm)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Two weeks after a car accident victim and her husband had fired Clayton attorney Norton Beilenson and hired Susan Roach, letters between the two lawyers already were getting testy. In an Aug. 4, 2004, faxed letter...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: January 15, 2006.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Charles W. German of Rouse Hendricks German May PC is the newly installed President of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. "I intend to work further on our governance structure and...

Campaign finance law restrained in Missouri.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck A Cole County judge on Jan. 8 issued a temporary restraining order against a portion of a new state law that bans campaign contributions during the January-to-May legislative session. However, other portions of the law...

Missouri Supreme Court rules surviving dependents can collect permanent total disability benefits.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that permanent total disability benefits should be paid to the dependents of an injured employee after the injured employee dies, even if the death was unrelated to the work injury. ...

Retiring MO Supreme Court Judge Wolff calls for expanded judge evaluations.(Michael A. Wolff)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck In his final State of the Judiciary address, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff gave a succinct call for increased judicial salaries and announced plans for a newer, better Missouri Bar judicial evaluation....

Third parties in Superfund cases breathing easier with 8th Circuit's opinion.(K.C. 1986 LP v. Reade Manufacturing, et al. (MLW No. 55226))
January 15, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals fell in line with other circuits in helping determine who gets stuck footing the bill for the cleanup of Superfund sites. The court's Jan. 4 opinion let one defendant, DeAngelo...

Doe Run appeal could expand tort law in Missouri.(Lani Meyer, By and Through Her Next Friend, Rebecca Coplin v. Fluor Corporation, et al.)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Class-action medical monitoring suits for uninjured plaintiffs, allowed in some states, could become a reality in Missouri if an appeal heard last week in the state Supreme Court is successful. While the plaintiffs...

Legal effort over Missouri school funding may spark judicial independence debate.(Committee for Educational Equality v. State of Missouri)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck A massive legal effort over state school funding got under way this month in Cole County. The lawsuit, which took three years to begin and will take at least six weeks to conclude, could result in the Legislature's...

U.S. Supreme Court rules for railroad in Missouri FELA case.(Federal Employee Liability Act)(Norfolk Southern Railway v. Sorrell)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Geri L. Dreiling Calling Missouri's jury instructions "idiosyncratic," the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a $1.5 million verdict for a railroad worker and sent the case back to the state court of appeals to decide whether applying...

Missouri Supreme Court forces state to adopt stricter standards when taking away parental rights.(In Re the Adoption of: N.L.B. M.T. and S.T. v. Craig Lentz)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The Missouri Supreme Court last week handed down several cases that establish important principles for families going through troubled times. Two cases, handed down Tuesday, forced the state to adopt stricter standards...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: January 15, 2007.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Certification For Appeal - Propriety - Pending Claims Where the judgment of a trial court in a modification proceeding left pending all of the child custody and child support...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: January 15, 2007.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Escape Rule - Postconviction Motion Where a criminal defendant fled the state, which resulted in the delay of his sentencing for more than 31 months, the escape rule is applied...

Help in understanding what constitutes "electronically stored information".
January 22, 2007... Byline: Dawn M. Mefford On December 1, 2006, several new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect, many of which address the often complicated issues associated with the discovery of "electronically stored...

University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor to lead Oregon school.(Robert Klonoff joins Lewis and Clark College. Northwestern School of Law)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff After three years as a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Robert Klonoff is returning to his hometown of Portland, Ore., where he will become dean of Lewis & Clark Law...

St. Louis law firm ranks No. 13 in Thomson Financial list of top mergers and acquisitions law firms.(Bryan Cave L.L.P.)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave completed 92 mergers and acquisitions with a total value of $23.8 billion in 2006, figures that netted the St. Louis firm a No. 13 ranking in a Thomson Financial list of top mergers and acquisitions law...

St. Louis demolition company pays $800K bill for bond company's expenses after winning arbitration.(Spirtas Co.)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Chalk one up in the "can't win for losing" category for St. Louis demolition company Spirtas Co. After winning $150,000 in a 2002 arbitration over an asbestos-removal contract for a job in New Jersey, Spirtas was...

Missouri prosecutor calls defendant names and lands case in Supreme Court.(State of Missouri v. Jeremy L. Banks)(Case overview)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck "The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerk's fingers." - Proverb The devil is often in the details. In this case, he was in a prosecutor's closing statement, leaving the Missouri Supreme...

Missouri law firm offers free trial symposium for new lawyers.(Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C.)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The law firm of Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C., is hosting a free advocacy symposium on Feb. 23, which will feature speakers on designed to help attorneys who have 10 years or less professional experience....

St. Louis law firm pays staffers $20,000 in overtime.(Carmody, MacDonald, Hilton, Wolf and Keast P.C.)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis law firm Carmody MacDonald paid 12 staffers a total of $19,700 in back overtime after the U.S. Department of Labor investigated the firm's overtime payment practices. The department's Wage and Hour...

U.S. sentencing guidelines are at judge's discretion unless the case is overturned.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter The U.S. Supreme Court returned judicial discretion in sentencing to the federal trial courts two years ago in United States v. Booker. Or did it? Appellate decisions handed down since Booker indicate the 8th...

Missouri law firms get their share of Solutia bankruptcy fees.(Case overview)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole As the bankruptcy of St. Louis-based chemical company Solutia Inc. drags on into its fourth year, the company is racking up tens of millions of dollars of fees and expenses and remaining a good client for two Missouri...

Missouri legislature likely to increase judicial pay.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck As Sen. Kevin Engler finished presenting his resolution to veto legislative and judicial pay raises, the committee chairman asked if anyone wished to testify in favor of Engler's position. Engler turned to face the...

Missouri falls behind in conducting thorough evaluations of judges.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck In Colorado, every voter in the state receives a booklet telling of the effectiveness of the judges. Arizona's constitution mandates that all judges selected on the state's merit system undergo evaluations. In Alaska,...

Missouri court narrowly upholds lawyers' ability to express opinions about former clients.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck It isn't every day that the Missouri Supreme Court chooses to issue a written opinion in an attorney discipline case. In fact, it hasn't done so for 21 months. So when the court handed down on Jan. 9 an opinion...

Federalist Society executive vice president decries nonpartisan plan as too liberal.(Leonard Leo)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka The Missouri Nonpartisan Court plan was once heralded as the ideal compromise between appointing judges and letting the public elect them. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia adopted some version of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: January 22, 2007.(Sutphin v. Renick)(United Petroleum Services, Inc. v. Piatchek )
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Dissolution - Validity - Second Marriage Where a wife tried to set aside the dissolution of her second marriage based on claims that the second marriage was void because her...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: January 22, 2007.(State v. Destefano )(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Methamphetamine - Audio Recording - Admissibility (1) Where a trial court in a drug distribution case admitted the entire audio recording of a drug transaction, the defendant's...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: January 22, 2007.(Pratt v. Lasley)(Floyd O. Patrick Jr. v. Department of Health and Senior Services )
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Order Of Protection - Adult Abuse Act - In Laws Where a man was granted a full order of protection against his brother-in-law, the two men were married to sisters which was...

U.S. Bank Court Case Summaries: January 22, 2007.(President Casinos, Inc. v. Columbia Sussex Corporation)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Bond Amount - Injunction - Casino Parking Where a temporary restraining order required owners of a casino parking lot to continue to honor the casino's parking validations at their...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: January 22, 2007.(Minnesota Towers, Inc., et al. v. City of Duluth)(Peltz v. Vancil, Inc.)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Zoning - Special Use Permit - Notice Where a city council denied a zoning request, previously approved by the city planning commission, for a special use permit to construct a...

Missouri tort reform would make settlements unlikely.(Case overview)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole $2.2 million settlement Lawsuits over a traffic accident that killed two engineering students were settled for an amount that lawyers from both sides said would be unlikely to be duplicated under Missouri's new...

Verdicts and Settlements January 22, 2007: Missouri employee settles car-accident case for $1.35M.(Allen v. Rountree)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $1.35 million settlement An employee injured in a car accident on a work-related trip has settled her Lincoln County personal injury case for $1.35 million. Both parties agreed that the plaintiff's employer will...

Verdicts and Settlements January 22, 2007: Missouri dad settles for $400K in wrongful death suit.(Powell v. Bellefontaine Gardens Nursing & Rehab, Inc.)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $400,000 settlement The father of a disabled man settled his wrongful-death case against a St. Louis nursing home, where the man was sent to recuperate from a hospital stay. A $400,000 global settlement was...

Verdicts and Settlements January 22, 2007: Missouri brain-damaged patient settles med-mal suit.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Confidential settlement A patient who suffered brain damage during heart bypass surgery has settled his St. Louis County lawsuit against the hospital and specialist monitoring his red blood cell level during the...

Missouri zoning issue goes before Supreme Court.(Dianna Reagan, et al. v. County of St. Louis )(Case overview)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Eminent domain usually conjures images of bulldozers and backhoes, but as a case in the Missouri Supreme Court illustrates, a zoning map in the county planning office might do the same thing. Dianna Reagan, et al....

Missouri Judge remembered as a judicial father figure.(Charles Blakey Blackmar)(Obituary)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Judge Charles Blakey Blackmar retired from the Missouri Supreme Court in 1992, but he never really left. The irascible and idiosyncratic judge, who heard cases long after retirement and offered his colleagues plenty of...

Top Missouri Business Verdicts & Settlements.(Spahn, et al v. Edward D. Jones & Co.)(Dale Finke and Albert Riederer v. Morgan Stanley, et al)(Structural Polymer Group Ltd. and Structural Polymer Systems Ltd. v. Zoltek Corp)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff 1. $127.5M settlement Securities class-action Spahn, et al v. Edward D. Jones & Co., et al U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Aug. 29, 2006 Attorneys for...

Top Missouri Defense Verdicts of 2006.(Weston v. Wyeth)(Michalek v. Crawford)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Wrongful death Nora Marie Hussey, individually and as plaintiff ad litem, et al. v. SSM Health Care St. Louis d/b/a St. Joseph's Health Center, Donald E. Binz et al. St. Charles County ...

Missouri paychecks could get an additional boost.
January 29, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Missouri's judges won't know until Wednesday if their hoped-for pay raise will go into effect. But if it does, their paychecks could get an additional boost. In his proposed budget for fiscal year 2008, Gov. Matt...

Top ten Missouri individual plaintiffs' verdicts rose to highest amount in three years.
January 29, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The total of the Top Ten individual plaintiffs' verdicts in Missouri rose to their highest amount in three years in 2006, but it was negotiation that led to the largest awards in business-related cases. The sum of the...

Largest Missouri Settlements of 2006.(Kemp v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.)(Ozeroglu v. Hogan Transports Inc., et al)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff 1. $37.5 Million Train accident; Kemp v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.; Jackson County Circuit Court Oct. 27, 2006 Attorneys for plaintiffs: Grant L. Davis, Thomas C. Jones and...

Top Missouri Plaintiffs Verdicts of 2006.(Silva, et al v. Consolidated Freightways Corp.)(Johnson, et al v. Allstate Insurance Co.)(Campbell v. Wal-Mart Inc.)
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff 1. $46 Million Wrongful death; Silva, et al v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. St. Louis Circuit Court. March 2, 2006 Attorneys for plaintiffs: Stephen M. Gorny and James P...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: January 29, 2007.(Golden Delta Enterprises v. US Bank)(Crouppen v. Crouppen )
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Banks and Banking Foreclosure - Priority Of Loans - Refinancing Where a trial court in a dispute over a bank's foreclosure proceedings found that a home equity deed of trust lost priority when...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: January 29, 2007.(Allen v. Director of Revenue)(State v. Watling)(Jones v. State )
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Hearing - Judicial Review - Pro Se Appellant Where a pro se appellant who faced criminal charges and license revocation following a car accident filed pleadings challenging the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: January 29, 2007.(Department of Social Services v. Mellas)(Hagan v. Buchanan)(State v. Martin )
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicaid - Billing Errors - Sanctions Where a doctor used the wrong code for his Medicaid billings for years because the Department of Social Services would not accept the...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: January 29, 2007.(Ambrose v. Young, et al.)(Hartman v. Workman )
January 29, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Inmate's Death - Qualified Immunity - Deliberate Indifference Where an inmate was killed when he touched a downed power line during a work detail, deliberate indifference was the...