Missouri Daubert Law

Wendy Jenkins, at al. v. North County General Surgery, et al.

St. Louis, Missouri personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on medical malpractice theories. Following a knee replacement in 2019, Wendy Jenkins developed an infection and ultimately lost her leg after several follow-up procedures. Wendy and her husband Richard sued a number of doctors and entities they claim negligently caused or contributed to the loss of... More...

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State of Missouri vs. Thomas Eugene Antle

<center><h2> Kansas City, MO - Criminal defense attorney represented Thomas Antle with one count of statutory sodomy in the first degree and one count of child molestation in the first degree charges. </h2></center> Antle was charged and convicted of first-degree statutory sodomy and first degree child molestation for putting his penis in the mouth of hi... More...

$0 (05-27-2021 - MO)

State of Missouri vs. Thomas Eugene Antle

<center><h2> Kansas City, MO - Criminal defense attorney represented Thomas Antle with one count of statutory sodomy in the first degree and one count of child molestation in the first degree charges. </h2></center> IN THE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS WESTERN DISTRICT STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent, v. THOMAS EUGENE ANTLE, Appellant.<... More...

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Calvin Fletcher, Sr. v. Joseph Tomlinson

St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) Officers Nicholas Martorano and John Moton appeal from the district court’s judgment, 1 entered upon a jury verdict, finding that they used excessive force in their apprehension and arrest of Calvin Fletcher and awarding damages to Fletcher totaling $600,000. They raise three issues on appeal: (1) the district court erred in allowing Fletcher to... More...

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Jodelle L. Kirk v. Schaeffer Group USA, Inc.; FAG Bearings, LLC

From 1973 to 1982, FAG Bearings Corporation released thousands of gallons of trichloroethylene (TCE), a volatile organic compound now classified as a hazardous substance, at its manufacturing facility in Joplin, Missouri. In 1991, the Missouri Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) detected TCE contamination in residential wells in the Villages of Silver... More...

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STATE OF MISSOURI vs. DAVID D. HIGHTOWER <table> <td>

<h2><center><a href="http://www.morelawsuites.com" target="_new">MoreLaw Suites - Legal Suites and Virtual Offices</a> The Best Places In Downtown Tulsa To Practice Law 406 South Boulder and 625 South Denver - 582-3993 </center></h2> On January 15, 2014, Dephanie Gillespie was sitting in her car, in a driveway next to her moth... More...

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Bruce Smith v. ConocoPhillips Pipe Line Co.

Phillips 66 (Phillips) owns a petroleum products pipeline which runs through the town of West Alton, Missouri. After a leak in the line was discovered in 1963, its source was repaired, but the contamination at the leak site was not remediated. In 2002 contaminants from the leak were discovered in a family residence in West Alton. Phillips purchased and demolished this property as w... More...

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Bonnie Rodrick v. Wal-Mart Stores East

Bonnie Rodrick tripped on a rug in front of a drinking fountain at a Wal-Mart store in Maryville, Missouri, in 2004, suffering injuries to her left hip. Invoking diversity jurisdiction, Rodrick sued Wal-Mart in 2007 asserting tort claims for her injuries. Following a four-day trial, a jury ruled in favor of Wal-Mart. Rodrick filed a motion for new trial, which the district court denied.1 Rodrick a... More...

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The Weitz Company v. MH Washington

The Weitz Company, LLC, sued MH Washington, LLC, MacKenzie House, LLC, and Summit Steel Fabricators, Inc., for breach of contract. The jury returned verdicts for Weitz against MH Washington/MacKenzie House (for $981,976) and against Summit Steel (for $326,839). The jury also found for MH Washington/MacKenzie House on its breach-of-contract counterclaim against Weitz (for $285,400.07). The district... More...

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Robert Franklin v. Local 2 Sheet Metal Workers

Appellants Robert G. Franklin (Franklin), Glenn E. Steele (Steele), Edward W. Lewis (Lewis), Darryl Bailey (Bailey), and Leon Booker (Booker) (collectively, Appellants) are African-American current or former members of Local 2 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (Local 2). Appellants filed a civil rights action against Local 2, alleging (1) racial discrimination in job placement u... More...

$0 (06-04-2009 - MO)

Cedar Hill Hardware and Constructrion v. Insurance Corp of Hannover

A jury found that Plaintiff-Appellant Cedar Hill Hardware and Construction Supply, Inc. ("Cedar Hillâ€), was not entitled to insurance coverage for fire-related damages because Cedar Hill made material misrepresentations that voided an otherwise applicable policy. Cedar Hill appeals, arguing waiver, error in the jury instructions, and error in the district court's1 admission of evidence and i... More...

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Jami Schmidt v. City of Bella Villa

Jami Neco Schmidt filed this claim for damages under 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983 and Missouri's strip search law, Mo. Rev. Stat. Â§ 544.193. She brought claims against the City of Bella Villa, Missouri, and Chief of Police Edward Locke, Jr. in connection with the alleged post-arrest photographing of her tattoo. She appeals from the district court's1 entry of summary judgment on each of her claims and fr... More...

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Sammie Sappington, et al. v. Skyjack, Inc., et al.

Sammie Sappington, Evelyn Sappington, and Justin Sappington (plaintiffs) appeal the district court's order excluding the testimony of their retained experts and granting summary judgment in favor of Skyjack, Inc., and Rental Services Corporation, Inc. (RSC). We reverse. I This strict products liability action arises out of the death of Doyle Sappington, a carpenter employed by... More...

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<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/06/09/053902P.pdf" target"_new">Yvonne Smith v. Alamo Rent-A-Car</a>

After an automobile accident killed four passengers in a rented 1998 Nissan Pathfinder, the decedents' survivors and the injured driver of another car brought this action against Nissan Motor Co., Nissan North America, Alamo Rent-A-Car, and the driver of the Pathfinder, Helena Cangieter. In support of their claims, the plaintiffs offered the expert testimony of Dr. Richard Ziernicki, but th... More...

$0 (09-12-2006 - MO)

<a href="http://www.osca.state.mo.us/courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/d8227d65f0b1308a86256e04006e701e?OpenDocument" target"_new">State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts v. Edward W. McDonagh, D.O</a>.

The State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts (the Board) initiated a disciplinary complaint against Dr. Edward McDonagh primarily alleging that he violated section 334.100, (FN1) a part of the Missouri Healing Arts Practice Act, through his representations regarding and use of chelation therapy in the treatment of patients with vascular disease. The Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) ... More...

$0 (12-23-2003 - MO)

<a href="http://www.osca.state.mo.us/courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/c339ad27917a903686256cf3006ab0b3?OpenDocument" target"_new">State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts v. Edward W. McDonaugh, D.O</a>.

This appeal arises from the Administrative Hearing Commission's (Commission) determination that "no cause" existed to discipline the medical license of Edward McDonagh, D.O. The Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts (Board) had filed a disciplinary Complaint alleging Dr. McDonagh endangered the physical and mental health of his patients through the use of EDTA chelation ther... More...

$0 (03-25-2003 - MO)

<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/02/10/021024P.pdf" target="_new">Carole Bendet v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation</a>

Carole Bendet and Joseph Bendet brought this product liability action against Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Sandoz), now known as Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, when Ms. Bendet suffered a stroke after taking Parlodel, a postpartum lactation suppressant that Sandoz manufactured. The district court granted summary judgment to Sandoz and the Bendets appeal. We reverse the judgment of... More...

$0 (10-22-2002 - MO)

<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/00/09/993431P.pdf" target="_new">Delores F. Turner, et al. v. Iowa Fire Equipment Company</a>

Delores and Russell Turner appeal the adverse grant of summary judgment in their personal injury action1 against Iowa Fire Equipment Company (Iowa Fire). The district court,2 after excluding the causation opinion of Delores Turner's treating physician, granted summary judgment on all claims brought by the Turners. We affirm.Background Because this is an appeal from the grant of a summary... More...

$0 (09-22-2000 - MO)

<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/01/03/994206P.pdf" target="_new">J.B. Hunt Transport v. General Motors Corporation</a>

J. B. Hunt Transport, Inc. (J. B. Hunt) appeals from the judgment of the district court,1 entered upon a jury verdict in favor of defendants, General Motors Corporation (General Motors) and Fisher & Company (Fisher), in this products liability contribution action. J. B. Hunt asserts that the district court erred by excluding certain expert testimony and other offered evidence, and as a result, ... More...

$0 (03-13-2001 - MO)