Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from May 2008

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from May 2008

KC superdelegate finds campaign pitches flattering but annoying.(Mark Bryant of Kansas City)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Kansas City attorney Mark Bryant hasn't met Barack Obama. But his individual support could prove vital for the Illinois senator. In addition to being a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Bryant is a...

Missouri firm Gallop, Johnson & Neuman adds fruit to doughnut day offering.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Gallop, Johnson & Neuman may still have its doughnut day on Fridays, but fruit now is available, too. "We're countering doughnut day," said managing partner Tom Campbell. "The (fruit) bowls are empty by the end of the...

Missouri Supreme Court stays suspension of KC attorney.(Kansas City; David H. Johnson)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The Missouri Supreme Court stayed the suspension of Kansas City attorney David H. Johnson's license for two years probation. Johnson failed to follow through on an insurance claim for a couple whose home was destroyed...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Jacki Langum of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri was named chair of the 2007-2008 Missouri Bar Leadership Academy. Langum, a staff attorney for LSEM's housing unit, is a graduate of the University of...

Eighth Circuit: Say no to drugs or lose financial aid.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco The Eighth Circuit said "yes" this week to a law that stops financial aid to students convicted of drug crimes. Under the ban, a student convicted of drug possession is ineligible for federal financial aid...

Commentary: When confidentiality breeds contempt.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Confidential settlements seem to be on the rise in our Missouri courts and that's not such a good trend. There are many reasons parties to a suit seek confidentiality. A company may not want to expose trade...

Three Missouri bills could reshape juvenile courts.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka In the last frenzied weeks of the legislative session, a trio of bills holds the possibility of changing the legal landscape for juvenile offenders and juvenile courts in Missouri. The measure with the greatest...

Piercing the veil helps secure $18M settlement.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka When it came to the settlement value of a prominent triple wrongful death case set before her in Jefferson City, a federal judge's estimate was remarkably accurate. U.S. District Judge Nannette K. Laughrey stamped...

Kansas City trial attorney is accomplished triathlete.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos Ahh the lunch break. That time of day when lawyers can, if only for a few minutes, clear their minds and enjoy a nice sandwich. Or, if you're Sherri Wattenbarger, trial attorney for the Kansas City office of the...

Fix is in store for TIF legislation for St. Louis.(tax increment financing)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Legislation that could lift a hold on TIF projects in three St. Louis area counties is hunting for a bill to call home. Officials from Jefferson, St. Charles and St. Louis counties and municipalities reached an...

Under lock and key: Mo. bill would restrict access to computer evidence in child porn cases.(Missouri)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka One portion of Sen. John Loudon's sex offender bill would place greater restrictions on the ability of defense counsel to access computer evidence in child porn cases. The bill, echoing a provision of the federal...

Mothers in law: Five lawyer moms taking different roads to achieve balance.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter and Tammy Worth Many law firms, recognizing the need to keep talented working mothers on staff, are responding by giving lawyers choices on how best to juggle family and their careers. Some women are committed to...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Pleadings - Fraudulent Concealment - Waiver Where plaintiffs who brought a prevailing wage claim against a former employer argued that the employer's failure to post the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgment - Interlocutory - Multiple Parties Where a judgment entered in a replevin action did not dispose of one of the parties and did not state an amount of damages...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Pro Se Appellant - Lack Of Transcript - Inadequate Brief Where a pro se appellant in a civil case failed to provide a transcript and her brief did not provide a fair and...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Real Property Inverse Condemnation - Water Runoff - No Direct Act Where homeowners brought an inverse condemnation action against a city after their property was damaged by storm water runoff,...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Subordination - Criminal Conviction - Reversal Where the claims of a company president and sole shareholder for post-petition rent were subject to equitable subordination based on...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: May 5, 2008.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional Student Financial Aid - Eligibility - Illegal Drug Restriction Where students challenged a ban on eligibility for federal financial aid for students convicted of possession or...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2008: Wal-Mart settles ADA complaint from applicant.(Americans with Disabilities Act)(Brief article)(Case overview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey After the Richmond Wal-Mart did not hire Hardin resident Steve Bradley, who has cerebral palsy and uses crutches or a wheelchair, even though a hiring manager said he was best-suited for a greeter position, Bradley...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2008: Restaurant settles case of workplace exposure to allergen.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos Timothy Richardson was 21 years old when he had a major allergic reaction to shrimp. What made the tragic incident a workers' compensation case was that he wasn't eating the shrimp; he was breading it for an...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2008: Nursing home negligence case results in defense verdict.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos A respiratory therapist with an expired license and a questionable past was a difficult obstacle for defense attorney Stephen Strum to overcome in this case of alleged nursing home neglect. But he said that a doctor's...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2008: Rental owners settle with female tenants, U.S. attorney.
May 5, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey In a civil case filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office, owners of several rental properties in the Richmond area, about 20 miles east of Kansas City, settled a Fair Housing Act claim involving alleged sexual harassment by...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2008: Jury finds St. Louis hospital did not cause patient's decline.(Barnes-Jewish Hospital)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Kyle Lewis Barnes-Jewish Hospital is not liable for the degradation of a patient's health, according to a St. Louis jury. The plaintiff, Alexander Toth, suing on behalf of his elderly mother, Florence Toth, claimed his mother...

Commentary: Law Day at 50: Why the rule of law still matters.
May 5, 2008... Byline: William H. Neukom On May 1, 1958, as the Cold War hung threateningly in the air, the American Bar Association urged the United States to honor something simple but crucial: the rule of law. President Eisenhower proclaimed May 1...

commentary: A letter from six former Supreme Court chief justices.(Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Dear Fellow Missourian, We believe that you - like most Missourians - want our courts to be fair and impartial, and accountable to the law, not to political pressure or special interests. Each of...

Lathrop & Gage PR manager is channeling Honest Abe.(Art Menke)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Art Menke is not a lawyer, but he's playing one for a sculpture intended for a Leavenworth, Kan., park. Menke, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound runner and public relations manager for Lathrop & Gage, posed in period garb as...

Jeff Cooper's goal for now is soccer.(Interview)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Jeff Cooper is deviating from a focus on the niggling details of law firm management to concentrate more on the grand scheme of bringing Major League Soccer to the St. Louis area. The managing partner of East...

Monsanto Co. general counsel: Such the deal.(David Snively)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole It might not be a good idea to haggle over real estate with a general counsel who participated in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history. Monsanto Co. general counsel David Snively apparently drove a hard...

St. Louis attorney Susan Reynolds in the penalty box.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis attorney and pension consultant Susan Reynolds was reprimanded for not adequately explaining to a client a potential conflict of interest. Reynolds was representing a trust that had a value of more than...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: May 12, 2008.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Several attorneys were among those appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to state commissions, committees, boards and councils. Edward R. Martin, 37, Blunt's former chief of staff, was reappointed to the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District affirms 2005 administrative hearing.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka While admitting a court rule on appeals of state administrative hearing decisions is peculiar and an anomaly, a Missouri court of appeals stuck to the rule. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District used the...

Renovations begin for Anheuser-Busch Hall at Washington University.(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff A 60-ton ornamental canopy has been placed atop the Washington University School of Law. The steel-and-glass canopy installation is part of an overall renovation project for the 11-year-old law...

Residential foreclosures in Missouri: prime business.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka The breakdown of the subprime housing market last year has meant big business for Missouri law firms that handle residential foreclosures for lenders. Firms have beefed up technology and hired staff. They've...

Tort reform, slow economy sting defense firms.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole In a local manifestation of attorney layoffs reported around the country, St. Louis defense firm Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass laid off five associates in April, bringing the firm to about 40 attorneys. Nationally,...

Eighth Circuit upholds default judgment in stock-fraud case.(United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco The Eighth Circuit remanded a $67.5 million award to the district court for new damages calculations, but the court upheld the underlying default judgment in a securities case this week against Ramy El-Batrawi,...

Commentary: a big quarter for western verdicts and settlements.(Missouri)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan It seems as if this year is just flying by and I find it hard to believe the calendar already reads May. So this week we will take a look at the top plaintiff and defense verdicts and settlements that were completed...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: May 12, 2008.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative License Discipline - Duty To File Brief - Burden Of Proof Where the Director of Insurance disciplined the license of an insurance company and the trial court reversed the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: May 12, 2008.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contracts Subdivision Development - Settlement Agreement - Enforcement Where a subdivision developer and a utility contractor entered a settlement agreement following a dispute over...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: May 12, 2008.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Attorney's Fees - Discrimination Complaint - Contested Case Where plaintiff filed a mandamus petition claiming the Missouri Human Rights Commission closed the file on his...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Appellate Panel Case Summaries: May 12, 2008.(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Secured Claim - Disallowance - Settlement Approval Where a bankruptcy court disallowed the secured claim of a creditor who had obtained a money judgment against the debtor for unpaid...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: May 12, 2008.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 50(b) - Time Limitations - Affirmative Defense Where a defendant in a civil case filed a Rule 50(b) motion for an extension of time to file a post-judgment motion for...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2008: Flatbed trailer collision case settles for $675,000.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A man injured in a collision with a flatbed trailer stranded on the highway has reached a $675,000 settlement in his St. Louis County case against the defendant driver and his employer. The confidential...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2008: Woman's family awarded $1.5 million.(medical malpractice)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Kyle Lewis The family of a woman who died of cancer was awarded $1.5 million by a Jasper County jury in their medical malpractice case. The family, who sued on behalf of the plaintiff Donna Wood, claimed that she did not...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2008: Family, landlord settle lead-exposure case.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A St. Louis family who sued their landlords over exposure to lead paint has settled for $275,000. The Haughton family filed suit in August 2005, alleging three children were harmed by exposure to lead paint, chips...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2008: Passenger recovers $215,500 for injuries.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A passenger injured in a car accident that killed the driver has reached a global settlement of $215,500 in her St. Louis County case against the driver's family and two other motorists involved in the collision. ...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2008: Jury finds in favor of hospital, sleep study technician.
May 12, 2008... Byline: Juli Eddleman A St. Louis jury found that Barnes-Jewish Hospital technician Herman Wilkins was not at fault for a patient's incurred medical expenses and distress. The plaintiff, Carol Harris, participated in a sleep study at...

Interest on arrearage.(maintenance support to ex-wife)(Brief article)
May 16, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Manascalco A husband must pay interest on the full amount of his delinquent maintenance payments to his ex-wife even though he relied in good faith on a trial court's order reducing his obligation. The trial court's...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: Greene County jury awards $413,000 for patient's fall.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A Greene County jury awarded more than $413,000 to a patient who fractured her leg during a fall in a Springfield hospital two days after hip replacement surgery. Marion Hardin, 77, had total right hip...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: Trucker, employer agree to $1.2M settlement.(Paul Wallace)(Leroy Davis)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter A trucking company and a driver agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. District Judge Henry E. Autrey approved the settlement at a hearing April...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: Parents settle with defunct business.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The parents of a man who was killed when his car was rear-ended by a salesman have settled their Franklin County wrongful death claim for $500,000. The salesman was delivering a motorcycle for his defunct former...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: Couple settles dog bite case for $100,000.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A husband and wife injured in a dog bite attack have reached a $100,000 settlement in their Jackson County case against the dog's owners. The parties' settlement agreement provides for an additional $10,000 or...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: Daughter awarded $1.7M for father's fatal collision.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale After hearing allegations of a fire department cover-up, a Wyandotte County, Kan., jury awarded $1.7 million to the young daughter of a man killed in a collision with a Kansas City, Kan., firetruck. The jury found...

Republicans ID way to suppress the vote.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Dan Margolies Once again, Missouri lawmakers are intent on adopting a solution to a nonexistent problem. Earlier this month, they gave preliminary approval to a measure that would amend the state constitution to require voters...

Chalk dust up at U of Missouri-Columbia law school.(Pamela Smith's employment discrimination case against the University of Missouri)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Law school professor Pamela Smith has more than one bone to pick with the University of Missouri-Columbia. A wide-ranging discrimination lawsuit Smith filed in April over accommodations for her chronic fatigue...

Stinson Morrison Hecker combines St. Louis offices.(Kaplan & Sandweiss)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole It's official - Stinson Morrison Hecker attorneys in St. Louis combined offices and are hunkering down in the building of the firm's merger partner in Clayton until the lease is up in 2012. The 49,000 square feet...

Penalty box: Missouri Supreme Court disbars one attorney, reprimands one.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The Missouri Supreme Court disbarred former Chillicothe city attorney Scott Washburn, whose license had been suspended in December over allegations he misappropriated $180,000 from an estate he was representing. ...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: May 19, 2008.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association recognized its 2008 honorees during the 35th annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom Conference at Tan Tar-A Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks. Among the award...

Commentary: Four traffic accidents end with plaintiff wins.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Many auto and truck accident disputes end up getting settled before they make a docket. But some of these cases are not so easily handled. This week we feature reports on four lawsuits that stemmed from vehicular...

A broken covenant: 1945 U.S. Supreme Court decision on discriminative housing practices.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka The house at 4600 Labadie Ave. in North St. Louis is a nondescript brick duplex, like nearly every other home on its tidy street. It reveals little of its role in breaking down discriminative housing practices in the...

Missouri stem cell measure: a failure of initiative?
May 19, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Collecting 150,000 signatures of registered Missouri voters is difficult enough. Doing it in two days? Impossible. But that was the challenge faced by backers of a stem cell measure after a state court of appeals...

Court challenges cheaper than convincing voters.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Chuck Hatfield's clients have realized that it's much cheaper to defeat a ballot measure early, through the court process, than to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for campaign consultants and television ads...

Missouri Lawyers Media's public notice director Regina P. Rickey dies.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Regina P. Rickey, who headed the public notice section for Missouri Lawyers Media, died of cancer Tuesday at SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake Saint Louis. She was 41. "I can't begin to describe...

Missouri Court of Appeals upholds ban on new billboards.(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A city has the authority to ban the construction of all new billboards, according to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. In State ex rel. Ad Trend, Inc. v. City of Platte City, the court upheld...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: May 19, 2008.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Brief - Inadequate - Failure To Amend Where the brief of a pro se claimant in an unemployment compensation case failed to substantially comply with the requirements of Rule...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: May 19, 2008.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Unpaid Hospital Bills - Business Records - Objections Where a hospital brought an action against defendants to collect for unpaid medical bills and defendants objected to the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: May 19, 2008.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Post- Conviction Relief - Effectiveness Of Counsel - Failure To Call Witnesses Where trial counsel for a burglary defendant failed to introduce evidence that the defendant had a...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Appellate Panel Case Summaries: May 19, 2008.(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Unclaimed Funds - Successor In Interest - Confirmed Plan Where plaintiff sought payment of unclaimed funds as successor in interest to a Chapter 11 debtor's sole shareholder, the...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: May 19, 2008.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Interlocutory Appeal - Certification - Attorney- Client Privilege Where a district court certified a discovery order for interlocutory appeal, the case was a typical...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2008: $21 million verdict said to be St. Louis County record.
May 19, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A man paralyzed in a 2004 car wreck won what lawyers believe is the largest personal injury verdict ever in St. Louis County: $21 million. With prejudgment interest, the total judgment will be approximately $25 million....

Missouri Lawyers in the News: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Springfield firm Neale & Newman announced Ryan M. McNew has become associated with the firm. McNew, who graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2007, practices in the areas of business...

Commentary: Searching far and wide for V&S you care about.(verdicts and settlements)(Column)
May 26, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Do Missouri lawyers care about verdicts and settlements from other states? In last week's column I noted that one of the published reports in that issue was from Kansas City, Kan. I also asked our readers if...

Some Missouri attorneys serving in Iraq, Afghanistan.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Tom Hayek, a partner with St. Louis-based Behr, McCarter & Potter, can't seem to escape the dust of western Iraq. When the weekly sandstorms swallow up the airfields at Al Asad, the dirt blows into every room on...

Missouri Plan scores well.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A new report analyzing how all 50 states choose judges for their highest courts is likely to give ammunition to both sides of the argument in Missouri. The bottom line, it finds, is that Missouri's method for...

Commentary: It's what's inside that counts.(new layout of Missouri Lawyers Weekly)
May 26, 2008... Byline: S. Richard Gard Jr. In case you thought the discussion a few weeks ago about our new typefaces was, on its face, superficial, this week we go deep. We look inward. This week we talk about the changes to our inside pages. It's...

Making your case: Communication is also about keeping control.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Julia M. Johnson "Electronic documentation has taken over in our practice," said Rick Bien, a member in the Kansas City office of Lathrop & Gage. "It's easier to search, manage and understand and see how documents relate to each...

Making your case: Leveling the paper field.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Julia M. Johnson Electronic systems and technology advances are making the term paperwork less relevant, but the process of managing documentation is still complex. According to Allison Guidette, vice president of marketing for...

Missouri Court of Appeals says insufficient notice won't set aside ruling.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Bryan Utter Failure to provide adequate notice to an uninsured motorist carrier can be good cause for setting aside a default judgment against an uninsured motorist, the Court of Appeals for the Southern District held last week....

Missouri Supreme Court says government may use nonlawyers for some hearings.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka In a move that may draw sighs of relief from state and federal agencies across Missouri and concern from some attorneys, the Missouri Supreme Court has altered its rules to allow nonlaywers to represent government...

Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco An officer unlawfully prolonged a traffic stop when he included drug-investigation questions with routine questions, according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Eighth Circuit, however, reversed...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Lis Pendens - Release - Effect Of Appeal Where a trial court ordered the release of a lis pendens on property that is the subject of pending litigation, the appellate court...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript - Failure To Include - Inadequate Record Where a trial court denied a motion to enforce arbitration and the opposing party did not include a transcript, a copy of...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript- Failure To File - Rule 84.04 Where a pro se appellant failed to file a transcript of the trial proceedings in her misdemeanor case, the appeal must be dismissed...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Post-Conviction Relief - Motion To Reopen - Abandonment Where a defendant convicted of first-degree murder sought to reopen his post-conviction proceedings based on alleged...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: May 26, 2008.
May 26, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Show Cause Order- Finality - Collateral Orders Where two employee benefit plans and their trustees appealed a bankruptcy court's denial of a motion to require a Chapter 7 trustee to...