Missouri Libel Law

Earnestine Trevino Decasual-Smith v. The Territory of Missouri, d/b/a Laurwen Mann, et al.

St. Louis, Missouri plaintiff, sued Defendant on a breach of insurance contract theory claiming more than $75,000 in damages. On November 2, 2021, Plaintiffs filed a Complaint in this Court against Defendants for "trespass, wrongful eviction, slander, libel and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.â€ Plaintiffs asserted four counts against Defendants: (1) Unlawful Trespas... More...

$0 (06-07-2022 - MO)

Issiah Andra v. Left Gate Property Holdings, Inc.

Issiah Andra appeals the judgment of the trial court dismissing Andra's claims against Left Gate Property Holding, Inc., d/b/a Texas Direct Auto ("Left Gateâ€) for lack of personal jurisdiction. We affirm. I. BACKGROUND In July 2011, Andra purchased a 2007 GMC Yukon XL Denali ("the vehicleâ€) which was offered for sale by Left Gate on the eBay website. Andra reviewed the in... More...

$0 (11-26-2013 - MO)

Jessica Cockram v. Genesco, Inc.

Jessica Cockram sued her former employer, Genesco, Inc., after the company made public statements about Cockram's involvement in an incident in which a pernicious racial slur appeared on a return receipt that Cockram handed to a customer. The district court dismissed Cockram's claim for false light invasion of privacy and granted summary judgment in favor of Genesco on her defamation claim. Cockra... More...

$0 (06-11-2012 - MO)

Amanda Crider v. Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals from the trial court's judgment dismissing her petition, which sought damages against defendant hospital, for plaintiff's failure to file a health care affidavit as required by section 538.225 RSMo (Cum. Supp. 2008).1 Plaintiff asserts that she was not required to file an affidavit because her petition did not allege that defendant improperly rendered or failed to render health c... More...

$0 (01-17-2012 - MO)

Greta Haynes-Wilkinson v. Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Before this Court is Defendant Barnes-Jewish Hospital's Motion to Dismiss or in the Alternative for Summary Judgment. The parties have consented to the jurisdiction of the undersigned Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Â§ 636(c). For the reasons stated in this Memorandum and Order, Defendant's Motion is granted in part and denied in part. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff or... More...

$0 (01-18-2001 - MO)

Sohrab Devitre v. The Orthopedic Center of Saint Louis, LLC and Mitchell B. Rotman, M.D.

Sohrab Devitre appeals the judgment of the St. Louis County circuit court dismissing his lawsuit with prejudice for failure to file a health care affidavit pursuant to section 538.225.1 Mr. Devitre argues that the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing the lawsuit because he was not a patient of Mitchell B. Rotman, M.D., or of The Orthopedic Center of St. Louis, LLC, and the independent m... More...

$0 (06-28-2011 - MO)

Leodegaria Sanchez Pontigon v. Udis Sanchez Lord

This is an appeal from the registration of a Canadian defamation judgment. We reverse. Because only questions of law are at issue, we review de novo. State ex rel. Nixon v. Griffin, 291 S.W.3d 817, 819 (Mo. App. W.D. 2009). The appellant, Ms. Lord, is an American citizen, resident of St. Charles County, Missouri, who was born in the Philippines. The respondent, Leodegaria Sanchez, is Ms. Lo... More...

$0 (04-19-2011 - MO)

<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/07/08/063169P.pdf" target="_new">Carolyn Bogan v. General Motors Corporation and North American Security</a>

Carolyn Bogan challenges the adverse grant of summary judgment on her claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against General Motors Corporation (GM). The district court determined Bogan failed to present expert testimony necessary to support her claim; in the alternative, the district court determined the emotional distress claim was preempted by federal labor law. Bogan v.... More...

$0 (09-04-2007 - MO)

<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/07/03/052798P.pdf" target="_new">Joseph W. McAninch v. Kansas Bankers</a>

Damian Sinclair and Susan Wintermute, former directors of Sinclair National Bank ("SNB"), brought breach of contract claims and tort claims against their insurer, Kansas Bankers Surety Company ("KBS"), arguing that KBS wrongfully refused to indemnify and defend them under a Directors, Officers and Employees Indemnity and Bank Lender Liability Policy DL 1859 AR ("D&O Policy"). The district c... More...

$0 (03-07-2007 - MO)

<a href="http://www.osca.state.mo.us/courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/b544cbdce8c2721486256f1500511776?OpenDocument" target="_new">Richard Romeo and Darlene Romeo v. Robert E. Jones, et al</a>.

Richard Romeo (Mr. Romeo) and Darlene Romeo (Mrs. Romeo) (collectively Appellants) appeal from a trial court judgment entered according to a jury verdict against Appellants and in favor of attorneys Robert E. Jones, Alan Farkas, Robert C. Jones, David M. Korum, and David G. Waltrip (collectively Respondents) on Appellants' Petition alleging abuse of process by Respondents based upon Respondents' r... More...

$0 (09-21-2004 - MO)

<a href="http://www.osca.state.mo.us/courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/7fd21c579fd75af686256e430063f906?OpenDocument" target="_new">Robert Gremminger and Georgia Gremminger v. Missouri Labor and Industrial Relations Commission</a>.

Claimants appeal from the Final Award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (the Commission) affirming the award of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) denying compensation from the Tort Victims' Compensation Fund for an unsatisfied money judgment in their favor for fraudulent representation. We affirm for the reason that fraudulent representation is not a "personal injury" compensated b... More...

$0 (02-25-2004 - MO)

<a href="http://www.osca.state.mo.us/Courts/PubOpinions.nsf/0f87ea4ac0ad4c0186256405005d3b8e/5ee60f3a7c0f752886256cfa005c356d?OpenDocument" target"_new">Carolyn Kenney v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc</a>.

Carolyn Kenney is the grandmother of Lauren Kenney, a minor child, and the mother of Lauren's father, Christopher. Chris Kenney and Lauren's mother, Angela Miles (now Angela Mueller), were never married and had not sought a formal declaration of visitation rights. Chris had regular visitation with Lauren "at least every other weekend" and sometimes during the week. When keeping Lauren, Chris wo... More...

$0 (04-01-2003 - MO)

Carolyn Kenney v. <a href="http://www.wal-mart.com">Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.</a>

Defamation - Libel - Plaintiff claimed that Wal-Mart wrongfully displayed a photograph of her and her grandchild in its Lee's Summit store representing that the baby was missing. The child's mother denied that she gave the photograph to Wal-Mart at the father of the child failed to return it to her after a visitation. Plaintiff claimed that her reputation was harmed by the posting and that Wal-M... More...

$425833 (12-04-2000 - MO)

Thomas Phelps Foundation v. Custom Insurance Company, Inc.

Tortious interference with business expectancy. On February 22, 1994, plaintiff's employee Allen Butler, reinjured his shoulder while working on the Mission Hlls subdivision. Butler had previously filed a workers' compensation claim on November 11, 1992 for a should injury he sustained while working for plaintiff. He filed a new claim for the 1994 injury. Continental originally denied the claim... More...

$90000 (07-28-1998 - MO)