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The Missouri Constitution provides for the Circuit Courts in Article V, Judicial Department. [1]Section 14: Circuit courts – jurisdiction – sessions. (a) The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction over all cases and matters, civil and criminal.
Federal courts located in Missouri United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (headquartered in St. Louis , having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
This category contains articles regarding case law decided by the courts of Missouri. Pages in category "Missouri state case law" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have looser procedures for a name change while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive. While some civil law jurisdictions have loosened ...
The Missouri Sunshine Law is meant to give light to important government issues in the state. The Missouri Sunshine Law is the common name for Chapter 610 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, the primary law regarding freedom of the public to access information from any public or quasi-public governmental body in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]
Generally, the first name (here, Roe) is the surname of the plaintiff, who is the party who filed the suit for an original case, or the appellant, the party appealing in a case being appealed from a lower court, or the petitioner when litigating in the high court of a jurisdiction; and the second name (here, Wade) is the surname of the ...
Name County Term as Judge Mathias McGirk: Montgomery: 1821–1841 John Dillard Cook: Cape Girardeau: 1821–1823 John Rice Jones: Washington: 1821–1824 Rufus Pettibone: St. Louis: 1823–1825 George Tompkins: Howard: 1824–1845 Robert Wash: St. Louis: 1825–1837 John C. Edwards: Cole: 1837–1839 William Barclay Napton: Saline: 1839–1849 ...
Motions for summary judgment, for example, can usually be brought before, after, or during the actual presentation of the case. Motions can also be brought after the close of a trial to undo a jury verdict contrary to law or against the weight of the evidence, or to convince the judge to change the decision or grant a new trial.