Supreme Court of Missouri Decisions 2020
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: SC98222
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent a preliminary writ of prohibition preventing the circuit court from allowing Plaintiffs' claims against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, and Janssen Research & Development…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: SC98444
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the administrative hearing commission (AHC) determining that John Gott, who owned and operated a sole proprietorship providing portable toilets to customers, was liable for…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: SC98640
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) affirming its previous order emergently suspending Dr. Blake Donaldson's license and finding cause for discipline and the Missouri…
Date: November 24, 2020
Docket Number: SC97692
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court against Jessica Hicklin in a declaratory judgment action against Eric Schmitt, Missouri's attorney general and other State parties, holding that Hicklin's…
Date: November 24, 2020
Docket Number: SC98323
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent a preliminary writ of mandamus sought by Vacation Management Solutions, LLC (VMS) to prevent the circuit court from moving forward with Kyle Klosterman's case in the City of St. Louis,…
Date: November 24, 2020
Docket Number: SC98601
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) determining that SEBA, LLC was liable for unpaid state sales tax, statutory interest, and a five percent addition to tax owed as…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: SC98416
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent its preliminary writ of prohibition prohibiting the circuit court from enforcing an order requiring Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Becker and an associate prosecuting…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: SC98443
Justia Opinion Summary: In this action pleading claims for suit on account and account stated the Supreme Court reversed and vacated the judgment of the circuit court in favor of DiGregorio Food Products, Inc., holding that the circuit court…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: SC97465
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court in favor of Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) and C.R. Bard Inc. on Plaintiff's claims related to Defendants' design and manufacture of polypropylene mesh…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: SC98018
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of felony stealing, holding that because Defendant's conviction for felony stealing was not final when State v. Bazell, 497 S.W.3d 263 (Mo. banc 2016), was decided,…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: SC98295
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of first-degree attempted rape and other offenses, holding that the circuit court committed no error regarding the claims Defendant asserted on appeal. After a jury…
Date: October 9, 2020
Docket Number: SC98744
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court denying Appellants' request for injunctive and declaratory relief that allows all Missouri voters to vote by mail without having their signatures on their…
Date: September 15, 2020
Docket Number: SC98169
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court reducing Plaintiff's personal injury award against Bi-State Development Agency (hereinafter, "Metro") to comply with the statutory cap set forth for public…
Date: September 1, 2020
Docket Number: SC97984
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court dissolving Wife's marriage to Husband and distributing the marital estate, holding that the circuit court did not err in awarding a marital 401(k) account of…
Date: September 1, 2020
Docket Number: SC98088
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of one count of robbery in the first degree, holding that the circuit court erred in excluding expert witness testimony regarding various…
Date: August 11, 2020
Docket Number: SC98262
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the circuit court entering partial summary judgment in favor of Plaintiff on the issue of liability, holding that the circuit court did not err in entering summary judgment on the…
Date: August 11, 2020
Docket Number: SC98298
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court against Defendant for one count of class C felony stealing and two counts of class A misdemeanor stealing, holding that absent proof of value, the offense…
Date: July 28, 2020
Docket Number: SC98227
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent its preliminary writ of prohibition prohibiting the circuit court from ordering certain defendants to be joined as necessary parties, holding that Mo. R. Civ. P. 52.04(a) did not mandate…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: SC97674
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Petitioner should have been discharged from probation before the State attempted to revoke probation and the circuit court…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: SC97697
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of second-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action, holding that none of Defendant's allegations of error entitled Defendant to…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: SC97872
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent its preliminary writ of mandamus compelling the circuit court to transfer the underlying lawsuit to St. Charles County, holding that the circuit court had no authority to change venue and…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: SC98012
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court affirming a jury's verdict in favor of Respondent on his legal malpractice claim, holding that public defenders are entitled to official immunity. Appellants…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: SC98020
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court declaring section 11.800 of House Bill No. 2011 (HB2011) invalid, holding that there was a direct conflict between the language of Mo. Rev. Stat. 208.153.2 and…
Date: June 23, 2020
Docket Number: SC98536
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the circuit court dismissing Petitioners' petition for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief with respect to Missouri's absentee voting…
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Number: SC97695
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the clean water commission approving Trenton Farms' permit to establish a twin concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), holding that House Bill No. 1713 (HB 1713) does not…
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Number: SC97854
Justia Opinion Summary: In this wrongful death action, the Supreme Court affirmed the order of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Mercy Hospital Joplin due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, holding that the…
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Number: SC97869
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court retransferred this case to the court of appeals after the juvenile division dismissed a juvenile petition and transferred jurisdiction over D.E.G., a juvenile, to a court of general jurisdiction,…
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Number: SC98007
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) that certain equipment purchased by Dreyer Electric Co. was exempt from sales tax because it was "replacement equipment" "used…
Date: June 2, 2020
Docket Number: SC97730
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) holding that The Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc. (the team) was the "purchaser" of certain items used in the renovation of…
Date: June 2, 2020
Docket Number: SC97991
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent a preliminary writ sought by LG Chem, Ltd. to prohibit the circuit court from enforcing its over overruling LG Chem's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that due…
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Number: SC97712
Justia Opinion Summary: In this disability discrimination action, the Supreme Court reversed the award of litigation expenses but affirmed in all other respects the circuit court's judgment in favor of Plaintiff, holding that no statute allows…
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Number: SC97940
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court on a jury verdict for Plaintiff on her claim that, as directors of the closely held Perma-Jack Company, Defendants breached their fiduciary duty to Plaintiff…
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Number: SC98010
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court finding that Fredric Prater was liable for $20,000 in damages after a car accident with Denise Kappel, holding that the circuit court did not abuse its…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: SC97878
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the motion court overruling Appellant's pro se Rule 29.15 postconviction motion seeking to vacate his felony statutory sodomy conviction under Mo. Rev. Stat. 566.062, holding…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: SC97881
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court overruling Appellant's Rule 24.035 motion for postconviction relief from the sentences imposed on her for class C felony stealing under Mo. Rev. Stat. 570.030,…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: SC97916
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court sentencing Appellant for class C felony stealing under Mo. Rev. Stat. 570.030 because State v. Bazell, 497 S.W.3d 263 (Mo. banc 2016), held that stealing in…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: SC98343
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Petitioner's claims of actual innocence did not entitle him to relief and that Petitioner neither demonstrated the "substantial…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97737
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court judgment overruling Defendant's Mo. Rev. Stat. 29.15 motion for postconviction relief from his death sentence for first degree murder, holding that the circuit…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC98077
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court committing Appellant to the department of mental health (DMH) as a sexually violent predator (SVP), holding that the circuit court did not err. In 2005,…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC98168
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying Employee's workers' compensation benefits on the grounds that she failed to prove her work injury was the prevailing or…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC98268
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court sentencing Defendant to two terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, holding that Mo. Rev. Stat. 565.020 is constitutional as applied to…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: SC97687
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants and dismissing Plaintiffs' medical malpractice action, holding that the uncontested facts showed that…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: SC97833
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court to the extent it enjoined the State from prohibiting unobtrusive picketing about matters of public concern in negotiations for a new labor agreement with the…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: SC98308
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court issued a permanent writ of prohibition ordering the circuit court to vacate its order sustaining Father's amended motion for temporary custody of his minor child and awarding Father temporary custody of…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Number: SC97910
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant's appeal challenging his convictions for first-degree statutory sodomy and attempted first-degree statutory sodomy, holding that, because two counts as to which the jury could not…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Number: SC97932
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission determining that DI Supply I, LLC's room furnishing sales to the Drury Hotels were not exempt from sales tax under the resale exemption in…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Number: SC97985
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court finding that the petition filed by a trust's sole beneficiary seeking removal of the trustee violated the trust's no-contest clause and in entering summary…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Numbers: SC98122, SC98124
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying Appellant's claim for workers' compensation benefits for injuries she suffered when she fell while entering her workplace,…
Date: February 18, 2020
Docket Number: SC97993
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the labor and industrial relations commission denying Claimants' claim for enhanced mesothelioma benefits under Mo. Rev. Stat. 287.200.4(3)(a), holding that because the deceased…
Date: February 4, 2020
Docket Number: SC97631
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court sustaining the chairman of the Missouri board of probation and parole's motion to dismiss Appellant's petition for declaratory judgment in which he sought a…
Date: February 4, 2020
Docket Number: SC97633
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court sustaining Respondent's motion for judgment on the pleadings and granting Respondent a hearing on his single-count petition for declaratory judgment claiming…
Date: February 4, 2020
Docket Number: SC97913
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of the State on the petition for declaratory and injunctive relief filed by Thomas Sager and the Missouri Coalition for the…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97235
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the circuit court overruling Dollar Tree's motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings on a former employee's claim of disability discrimination, holding that the order was…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97470
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court declaring the affidavit requirement of Mo. Rev. Stat. 115.427.2(1) and 115.427.3 unconstitutional and enjoining the State from requiring individuals who vote…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97544
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed these appeals for lack of jurisdiction because neither appeal challenged a "final judgment" as that phrase is used in Mo. Rev. Stat. 512.020(5). The treasurer appealed from a declaratory…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97641
Justia Opinion Summary: In this suit alleging retaliation pursuant to section 213.070 of the Missouri Human Rights Act (MHRA) the Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court denying Washington University judgment notwithstanding…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97744
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated Defendant's guilty by mental disease or defect (NGRI) plea that the circuit court accepted after finding Defendant lacked competence to continue with the criminal proceedings, holding that the…
Date: January 14, 2020
Docket Number: SC97811
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of felony possession of a controlled substance, holding that the circuit court did not err in admitting evidence obtained from Defendant's statements and a search of his…
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