The Missouri Bar held its annual meeting in St. Louis last week, an event that’s usually keynoted by a somber address from the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. This year, the assembled lawyers heard the chief justice deliver…
The Missouri Supreme Court was correct — and politically wise — to beg off broadly intervening in Missouri’s system of funding public primary and secondary education.
The high court decided Tuesday that the state education funding formula enacted in 2005 satisfies state constitutional…
Library stacks in the Missouri Supreme Court Building. Tom Uhlenbrock|Post-Dispatch
The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case brought by about 240 of Missouri’s 523 school districts along with taxpayer and education advocacy groups from throughout the state. At…
Missouri Supreme Court building
Members and supporters of the elected St. Louis Board of Education have been scrapping to regain control of the district ever since state regulators stripped the board of its authority in June 2007. Today, they are scheduled to…
The Missouri Supreme Court struck down the St. Louis Police Board’s retiree health care plan yesterday.
The court held that state law which requires the police board to provide health care was violated when retirees were offered a slim benefits package at no…
The circuit court of the city of St. Louis has 24 circuit judges. Last month, in the closing days of the legislative session, the Missouri House of Representatives unsuccessfully tried to reduce that number by 25 percent.
The manner in which the…
The U.S. Senate this week gave unanimous consent by voice vote to President George W. Bush’s appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri.
Given that Senate Democrats and the Republican president have been…
