Missouri Supreme Court
Recent News About Missouri Supreme Court
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Black workers can sue Harley-Davidson over claims of nooses, racist graffiti at plant
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - Claims that African-American workers were subjected to nooses, Confederate flags and racist graffiti at a Harley-Davidson factory are enough to allow a hostile workplace suit to proceed even if the plaintiffs never saw such things themselves, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled. -
Confusion over control of Cape Girardeau's courthouse undoes $475K verdict over broken leg
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – It’s back to square one for a lawsuit in Missouri that made it all the way to a $475,000 jury verdict, only to have the state Supreme Court order a restart. -
Unneeded prostate surgery justifies punitive damages, Missouri Supreme Court rules
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - The children of a man who died after what may have been unnecessary prostate surgery were entitled to punitive damages, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled, even though a subsequent change in the law has put them out of reach in such cases. -
No mistrial over failure to admit evidence of C.R. Bard's corporate conviction
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who sued the manufacturers of her pelvic-mesh implants isn’t entitled to a new trial over the fact she wasn’t allowed to tell jurors about one company’s prior criminal conviction, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Oct. 13. -
Proponents of venue reform say out-of-state claimants have 'gamed' St. Louis city courts
JEFFERSON CITY – Speaking for the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers in opposing a bill that would tighten jurisdiction over civil suits, injury attorney Brett Emison argued that cities produce better trials because jurors have time and resources to sit for weeks, whereas jury prospects in rural counties have to get their crops in. -
$19M verdict against BNSF stands; Mo. SC rejects argument juror concealed that she had filed wrongful death suit
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed a jury verdict in a case against BNSF Railway Co. over the alleged wrongful death of a Missouri man. -
Mo. Supreme Court: Commission can deny approval of post-award settlement in Workers' Comp case
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – Missouri's state labor commission can refuse to approve a post-award settlement between Costco Wholesale and an employee who was injured on the job, the state Supreme Court has ruled. -
Missouri Supreme Court says wrongful death suit against doctors filed after statute of limitations
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – Doctors entangled in a wrongful death suit were granted their request for the Missouri Supreme Court to grant a writ of prohibition that would prevent a circuit court from taking any action besides dismissing the suit against them “as barred by the statute of limitations.” -
Mo. SC rules for supervisors sued over death of delivery driver sent out during a winter storm
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Missouri has affirmed a summary judgment by a trial court in a wrongful death lawsuit in which a delivery driver died while operating a company vehicle during a winter storm. -
SCOTUS decision changes everything in Missouri mass tort cases; Once-$72M verdict will stay vacated
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – The Missouri Supreme Court's decision earlier this month to not review a talcum powder case against Johnson & Johnson, leaving vacated a once-$72 million verdict signals that the "Show-Me State is now a less tort-friendly place," a mass tort litigator says. -
Class action lawyers lose $2.5M Mo. ruling after Supreme Court takes case
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned a $2.5 million verdict against Nissan North America Inc., which had been sued by a class of plaintiffs that alleged the automaker had produced vehicles with dashboards that became defective when there was heat or high humidity. -
Judge says reasonable consumer could be fooled by slack fill in Hot Tamales, Mike and Ike's
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – Candy company Just Born Inc.’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit over slack-fill techniques was denied by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Central Division on July 21. -
Missouri SC upholds damages award of nearly $40 million in Depakote lawsuit
Defendant Abbott Laboratories Inc. appealed the City of St. Louis Circuit Court’s judgment awarding plaintiff Maddison Schmidt $15 million in compensatory damages and $23 million in punitive damages for her personal injury claim. Schmidt was born with spina bifida and other birth defects. -
Med-mal plaintiffs lose attempt to disqualify juror; Rehearing requested at Missouri Supreme Court
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Missouri has affirmed a lower court’s verdict in favor of the defendant in a medical negligence case in which two plaintiffs claimed a juror should have been disqualified. -
Mo. Supreme Court rules the former St. Louis Rams are liable for unpaid sales tax
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that the former St. Louis Rams owe $335,000 in state sales tax that went unpaid from 2007 to 2013. -
Mo. Supreme Court rules against wrongful discharge claim
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Missouri has upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of Ameren Corp. and others in a lawsuit filed by a commercial plumbing firm, Bishop & Associates. -
Missouri Supreme Court sends product liability case back for retrial following appeal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned the decision of a lower court in a product liability lawsuit over an incident that has left the plaintiff with an ongoing back injury. -
Mo. Supreme Court gives new life to medical malpractice case
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Missouri has overturned a jury verdict against a woman whose esophageal lining allegedly was torn during a medical procedure. -
Missouri high court lowers amount awarded to Kansas City School District employee
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – The Missouri Supreme Court on May 16 lowered the amount awarded by a lower court in a wrongful discharge claim of a former employee of the Kansas City School District. -
Missouri SC sides with Humane Society in kennel owner’s defamation lawsuit
The state’s high court, in an April 27 decision, agreed with the nation’s largest animal protection organization in a lawsuit brought against it by a Salem, Missouri, woman whose dog kennel was named one of the worst “puppy mills” in the state by The Humane Society of the United States.