Missouri

Can iPhone users sue Apple for charges to app developers? Supreme Court to decide

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether people who buy iPhone apps can sue Apple over 30 percent commissions charged to app developers on sales. Four iPhone users are seeking triple damages in a would-be class action that alleges Apple violated antitrust law by monopolizing the app market,…

Jun 18, 2018 3:06 PM CDT

Mystery donor gave $100K to law firm representing ex-husband of Missouri governor’s accuser

Lawyers for embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens revealed in court Monday that a law firm representing the ex-husband of the governor’s accuser received two mystery cash payments of $50,000 each. The ex-husband’s lawyer, Al Watkins, told reporters after the court hearing on Monday that a person believed to be a…

Apr 24, 2018 12:53 PM CDT

Litigant is charged in lawyer’s shooting death after accidentally recording incriminating remark

A defendant in a lawsuit has been charged with murder after accidentally recording an incriminating remark in the death of the Kansas City, Missouri, lawyer who sued him.

Apr 12, 2018 8:52 AM CDT

Lawyer who once moonlighted as a stripper uses indicted governor’s argument in seeking a pardon

A lawyer who moonlighted as a stripper while in law school is asking Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to pardon him for secretly recording sexual encounters—and he’s using the governor’s own arguments. California lawyer Paul Henreid had taken a guilty plea in 1999 under Missouri’s invasion of privacy law. It’s the…

Feb 28, 2018 8:00 AM CST

Federal judge considers $1M in fines for prison medical provider’s ‘intractable failures’

In late December, federal Magistrate Judge David Duncan waved an iPad in front of his Phoenix courtroom, enraged. He had just read a local news article suggesting that the Arizona Department of Corrections and its for-profit medical provider Corizon Health were gaming a system put in place to ensure adequate…

Feb 27, 2018 1:55 PM CST

Satanic Temple’s challenge to abortion law heads to Missouri Supreme Court

The Missouri Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Tuesday in a suit filed by a Satanic Temple follower that challenges the state’s abortion informed consent law. The suit filed by a resident known as Mary Doe says the law violates her deeply held religious beliefs in violation of the state’s…

Jan 23, 2018 11:12 AM CST

Missouri AG subpoenas Google to investigate antitrust and consumer protection violations

The attorney general of Missouri has launched an investigation into whether Google mishandled customer data and violated antitrust law. “There is strong reason to believe that Google has not been acting with the best interest of Missourians in mind,” Josh Hawley said in a statement. The investigative subpoena will determine…

Nov 15, 2017 10:05 AM CST

Concern grows over youths at juvenile correctional facility being sent to adult prison

State officials, advocates and a federal judge on Thursday proposed remedies to better deal with youths accused of assaulting staff members at a southern Illinois juvenile correctional facility, including finding youths outside lawyers instead of local public defenders and conducting additional training for correctional officers. “The children don’t get any…

Nov 3, 2017 1:54 PM CDT

Lawyer is shot and killed on his front porch; police search home of lawsuit defendant

Police are taking a look at a civil case that had been brought by a Kansas City, Missouri, lawyer who was shot and killed on his front porch on Wednesday.

Oct 26, 2017 11:48 AM CDT

Missouri appeals court tosses $72M talcum powder verdict, says suit was filed in wrong state

A $72 million verdict in a suit contending that talcum powder causes cancer has been overturned as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that limited the jurisdictional reach of state courts. The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the verdict obtained by the family of…

Oct 17, 2017 1:55 PM CDT

About 80 people are arrested in third night of St. Louis violence after cop’s acquittal

Police arrested about 80 protesters in St. Louis Sunday night during a third night of violence that followed the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of a black driver. A “group of agitators” didn’t leave after a daytime demonstration ended on Sunday, Mayor Lyda Krewson said…

Sep 18, 2017 9:22 AM CDT

Public defender with 110 post-conviction cases gets stayed suspension for neglecting clients

The Missouri Supreme Court has imposed a stayed suspension with a one-year license probation period on a public defender who said he provided inadequate client representation partly because of a heavy and unreasonable caseload. Karl Hinkebein, a Columbia public defender who handled petitions for post-conviction relief, received the stayed suspension…

Sep 18, 2017 7:45 AM CDT

Relatives of undocumented children caught up in ICE dragnet

This summer, a Kansas City man named Edwin got a call from immigration officials. They had picked up his nephew at the southern border and wanted to release the teen into his care. So Edwin went online and bought a bed. Later that week, he was contacted again, this time…

Sep 12, 2017 3:45 PM CDT

Company can’t fire worker for making racist comments on picket line, appeals court says

The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a company cannot fire a union member for yelling racist insults at replacement workers crossing a picket line, BNA Bloomberg reports. The opinion (PDF) issued Tuesday upheld a finding by the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled that…

Aug 9, 2017 3:03 PM CDT

Justice Department creates in-house team to monitor accuracy of forensic testimony in criminal cases

The Justice Department has created an internal team led by a former state prosecutor to monitor the accuracy of forensic testimony in criminal cases over an outside advisory group of experts and stakeholders, which the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) described as a victory “over academics and defense attorneys” The…

Aug 9, 2017 12:21 PM CDT