Supreme Court of Missouri Decisions 2023
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100030
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed a lower court's judgment in a negligence case involving a hospital and an individual who was shot on the hospital's property. The plaintiff, Steven Harner, had sued Mercy Hospital…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100043
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Missouri dismissed an appeal from the City of Harrisonville and Brad Ratliff (collectively, "the City"), who were challenging a ruling by the lower court in favor of the Missouri Department of…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100045
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed the circuit court's ruling and held that the Truly Agreed and Finally Passed House Bill 1606 (2022) (“TAFP HB 1606”) violated the single subject requirement of article III, section…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100069
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Missouri ruled in favor of three employees of a medical facility, Jayla Ruiz Morales, John Kimani, and Valarie Johnson, who were sued for wrongful death by the legal guardian of a patient, Ronald…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100298
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Missouri issued an opinion involving a dispute between Tyler Technologies, Inc., and several individual and corporate property owners. The property owners had filed a class-action petition alleging…
Date: December 19, 2023
Docket Number: SC100304
Justia Opinion Summary: In Missouri, Jackson County and its public officials sought a writ of mandamus to overturn a circuit court's order which had denied their motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Jackson County property owners. The…
Date: November 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC100006
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the final award of the labor and industrial relations commission affirming and adopting an administrative law judge's award of permanent total disability benefits to Jannie Harper under the…
Date: November 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99995
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission finding that Maryann Gray's applications for review were timely filed pursuant to Mo. Rev. Stat. 287.480 and overruling Hawthorn…
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: SC100084
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court overruling Appellant's Mo. R. Crim. P. 24.035 motion for postconviction relief, holding that the circuit court did not clearly err in concluding that counsel…
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: SC99961
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court overruling GoJet Airlines, LLC's motion to compel arbitration in this breach of contract action brought by Hampton Brown and remanded this case to compel…
Date: November 7, 2023
Docket Number: SC99998
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission determining that Walmart Starco LLC was exempt from use tax for its purchase and use of information technology equipment pursuant to Mo.…
Date: October 3, 2023
Docket Number: SC99977
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this appeal brought by the State of an order and judgment dismissing with prejudice criminal charges against Defendant, holding that there was no final, appealable judgment, and therefore, the…
Date: August 29, 2023
Docket Number: SC99949
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of prohibition barring the circuit court from taking any further action in Petitioner's criminal case other than dismissing the pending charges against him, holding that the Interstate…
Date: August 15, 2023
Docket Numbers: SC99719, SC99823
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Caitlyn Williams and Tamara LaRue (together, Parents) of failing to cause their children to attend school on a regular basis in violation of…
Date: August 15, 2023
Docket Number: SC99864
Justia Opinion Summary: In this declaratory judgment action, the Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court overruling the motion to intervene as a matter of right filed by St. Louis and Jackson counties (the Counties), holding…
Date: August 15, 2023
Docket Number: SC99942
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court made permanent a preliminary writ it issued granting Monsanto Company's petition for a writ of prohibition or mandamus requiring the St. Louis circuit court to transfer venue of five of the six…
Date: August 15, 2023
Docket Number: SC99978
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the Public Service Commission granting the joint application of Missouri-American Water Company and DCM Land LLC for variances from Missouri-American Water Company's tariff absent…
Date: July 20, 2023
Docket Number: SC100132
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court making permanent a writ of mandamus ordering Attorney General Andrew Bailey to approve fiscal note summaries for eleven proposed initiative petitions Dr. Anna…
Date: July 20, 2023
Docket Number: SC99740
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Missouri Mining Commission awarding attorney fees and expenses in favor of Fowler Land Company and the Margaret Leist Revocable Trust (collectively, Landowners) after…
Date: July 20, 2023
Docket Number: SC99928
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court dismissing the underlying wrongful death lawsuit, holding that the allegations of the petition established that Crystal May was entitled to official immunity,…
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Number: SC99658
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed Defendant's appeal of the circuit court's final judgment in this criminal case, holding that Defendant's appeal was untimely. After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of financial…
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Number: SC99700
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court denying Plaintiff's challenge to the constitutional validity of Mo. Rev. Stat. 303.390, which prohibited Plaintiff from collecting noneconomic damages in her…
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Number: SC99816
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court dismissing Petitioner's petition seeking relief from fraudulent transfers Respondent made to hinder collection of her judgments against him, holding that…
Date: June 27, 2023
Docket Number: SC99886
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the circuit court sustaining Defendant's motions to suppress evidence obtained after his warrantless arrest for a felony, holding that to the extent the decision was based on…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99092
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court, holding that the Missouri Constitution does not permit the General Assembly to limit the Conservation Commission's authority to expend and use conservation…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99554
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for first-degree statutory sodomy, incest, first-degree child molestation, and one count of first-degree attempted rape, holding that the circuit court's jury…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99567
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the circuit court overruling Appellants' motion to vacate the court's order appointing a receiver for Appellants, holding that the petition filed by Patriots Bank seeking the…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99655
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court affirming the decision of the director of revenue to suspend Defendant's driver's license pursuant to Mo. Stat. 302.505, holding that the circuit court did not…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99871
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of possessing a controlled substance, in violation of Mo. Rev. Stat. 579.015.1, and unlawfully using a weapon while in possession of a…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99896
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed Juvenile's appeal of his delinquency adjudication, holding that Juvenile's appeal of the issue of whether he "knowingly and voluntarily" admitted to the conduct alleged in the juvenile…
Date: June 13, 2023
Docket Number: SC99913
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of three counts of child molestation in the first degree and three counts of statutory sodomy in the first degree, holding that Defendant…
Date: June 8, 2023
Docket Number: SC100077
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition seeking a writ prohibiting his execution and to appoint a special master to conduct an evidentiary hearing on his incompetency claim, holding that Petitioner did not…
Date: May 16, 2023
Docket Number: SC99670
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court in favor of Meyer Electric Company on John Lisle's claim that Meyer Electric violated Mo. Rev. Stat. 287.780 by refusing to hire him because he exercised his…
Date: May 16, 2023
Docket Number: SC99794
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court issued a writ prohibiting the Honorable Steven A. Judge Privette from proceeding in the underlying proceeding initiated against Betty Grooms, the circuit clerk of Oregon County, for contempt of court,…
Date: May 2, 2023
Docket Number: SC99464
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of one count of kidnapping in the first degree and one count of committing violence against an employee of the Department of Corrections,…
Date: April 18, 2023
Docket Number: SC99517
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the administrative hearing commission (AHC) finding that Charter Communications Entertainment I, LLC (CCE I) was entitled to manufacturing exemptions with respect to its 2011…
Date: April 4, 2023
Docket Number: SC99656
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1995, MacColl, charged with having “deviate sexual intercourse with an unnamed juvenile female,” pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct, a class A misdemeanor. The circuit court sentenced MacColl to one year in jail,…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99488
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court rejecting Appellants' challenges to the validity of Mo. Rev. Stat. 192.300.1 and its effect on local county ordinances regulating controlled animal feeding…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99591
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court denying Defendant's pro se motion for postconviction relief filed under Mo. R. Crim. P. 24.035, holding that remand was required for the motion court to make a…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99650
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court quashed a preliminary writ of prohibition granted to the Kristine and Dennis Hill preventing the circuit court from compelling production of certain settlement documents relating to a motor vehicle…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99701
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court dissolving a permanent injunction placing restrictions on Glendale Shooting Club, Inc.'s firing range operations, holding that the circuit court erred in…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99747
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court finding Defendant guilty of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and one count of first-degree child molestation, holding that Defendant was not…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99786
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this appeal brought by A.S. and A.S. (together, Relatives) challenging the decision of the trial court to overrule their motion for a new trial following an adjudication hearing on the…
Date: March 21, 2023
Docket Number: SC99799
Date: March 7, 2023
Docket Number: SC98907
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed a portion of the judgment of the circuit court determining that invalid provisions of parking statutes creating duties for municipal offices could not be severed, holding that the circuit court…
Date: February 14, 2023
Docket Number: SC99625
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of first-degree child molestation, and one count of enticement of a child, holding that Defendant was not…
Date: February 14, 2023
Docket Number: SC99813
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a preliminary writ of prohibition ordering the circuit court to take no further action in the underlying criminal matter other than dismissing the Washington County prosecuting attorney's motion…
Date: January 31, 2023
Docket Number: SC99419
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court sustaining the motion to dismiss filed by the City of St. Charles due to Plaintiff's failure to provide notice of suit, as required by section 12.3 of the City…
Date: January 31, 2023
Docket Number: SC99592
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the circuit court reforming a property deed executed by Lillian and J.C. Singleton, as husband and wife, that divested Appellants' interest in the property, holding that the…
Date: January 31, 2023
Docket Numbers: SC99715, SC99714
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgments of the circuit court denying Appellants' petitions for removal from the Missouri sex offender registry, holding that the circuit court did not err. Appellants Brock Smith and…
Date: January 10, 2023
Docket Number: SC99493
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission affirming and adopting the ALJ's final award denying Appellant's claim for benefits from the Second Injury Fund, holding that the…
Date: January 10, 2023
Docket Number: SC99563
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission overruling James Swafford's claim for permanent total disability (PTD) benefits from the Second Injury Fund, holding that Swafford…
Date: January 10, 2023
Docket Number: SC99605
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying Appellant's claim for benefits from the Second Injury Fund, holding that the Commission did not abuse its discretion and…
Date: January 10, 2023
Docket Number: SC99732
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the circuit court confirming M.O.'s arbitration award in this personal injury action, holding that the circuit court erred in confirming the arbitration award because GEICO…
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