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Federal appeals court upholds attorney’s fees award in Missouri voter registration dispute

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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld an award of $1,143,627.96 in litigation expenses for the League of Women Voters of Missouri against Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft in a dispute over voter registration. in fees and $27,484.15

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Court denies request to block Missouri execution over intellectual-disability claim

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Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of a Missouri man after his attorneys argued in a final appeal that his intellectual disabilities made the execution unconstitutional. Lower courts rejected those arguments, and his attorneys asked the justices on Monday to intervene.

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Six states sue President Biden over student loan forgiveness plan

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The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. According to the AP , the White House dismissed the lawsuit as baseless.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

LawSites

Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. ” Smith v.

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Federal court temporarily blocks Iowa ban on mask mandates in public schools

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In Missouri, the Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed suit challenging local public school authority to require masks, while the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Governor Greg Abbott allowing him to ban a Dallas school district from requiring masks.

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Ruling Rightly Sends COVID Biz Interruption Question To Jury

Law 360

After a string of insurer coronavirus coverage wins on dispositive motions, a Missouri federal court's ruling this week in favor of the policyholder in K.C.

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False Confessions: Protecting the Vulnerable

The Crime Report

Forensic guardianships, which entail wards who are at substantial risk of being questioned by law enforcement officials, are assiduously protected by the law; and they have been further reinforced by Supreme Court decisions. The lack of training is particularly telling in Missouri. in continuing education courses.

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