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Entries Tagged as 'MO Supreme Court'

Ambulance Chasers Pour Money to Governor Nixon

September 16th, 2011 · No Comments

This week alone, the Carney & Danis law firm contributed an additional $100,000 to Nixon. Both partners of this firm are active MATA members and had their law licenses suspended in 2002 for unethical activity.

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Tags: Jay Nixon · MO Legislature · MO Supreme Court

“Missouri Plan” Needs Real Transparency & Accountability

August 31st, 2011 · No Comments

“The Missouri Plan is the most political method for choosing judges, in that it allows a tiny group of lawyers to effectively choose the judges that will decide their cases. The people of Missouri have no input. Introducing a basic level of transparency is a small step in the right direction, but more is needed. [...]

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Tags: MO Legislature · MO Supreme Court · Uncategorized

Bob McCarty: Transparency Missing in Missouri Senate, Courts

April 18th, 2011 · No Comments

St. Charles County blogger Bob McCarty follows up on a story we first brought you in 2009. Lisa Payne-Naeger summed up one of the problems related to Family Court justice in Missouri in the opening paragraph of her March 30 post, Best Interests of Children Take Backseat as Bill Advances Thru Missouri Senate “Sight Unseen”: [...]

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Signature Gatherer Allegedly Called ‘Nigger’ & ‘Monkey’ by Blocker

April 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Trial attorneys, intricate members of the so called party of ‘tolerance,’ haven’t been exhibiting a lot of tolerance lately if you read an affidavit filed by a ShowMeBetter Courts signature gather. The African American man from St. Louis claims he was called several racial slurs by so called “blockers” allegedly hired by Missouri for Fair [...]

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Temporary Restraining Order Issued Against Trial Attorney Group for Voter Intimidation and Violence

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Yesterday, a restraining order went into effect against the Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund, an organization funded by trial attorneys opposed to judicial elections. The restraining order was granted after complaints that a “blocking” company hired by the action fund had been intimidating voters and harassing petitioners collecting signatures for an initiative [...]

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State Committees Come Out of Hibernation to Give Trial Lawyers Money to Fight Election Initiative

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments

According to the 48-hour reports filed by the Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund, a group that opposes a petition that would replace the Missouri Plan with judicial elections, they have raised at least $197,500 for their efforts. This includes $17,500 from Greene Countians for Fair and Impartial Judges, a long-dormant committee that [...]

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