supreme court of missouri

Six of the seven justices agreed the language in Proposition A’s summary and fiscal note did not mislead voters and that the results of the measure’s statewide vote should stand.

Attorneys spoke for and against the overturning of Prop. A based on complaints regarding election irregularities and constitutional violations.

The Supreme Court of Missouri will listen to oral arguments after organizations filed a lawsuit calling for the invalidation of Proposition A.

Associate Circuit Judge Joe Don McGaugh, a former lawmaker, will be off the bench for a year and must submit to a mental evaluation before returning to work.

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and constitutional errors at his trial.

Matthew Jacober, special counsel for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s office, filed the appeal earlier this week with the state’s high court, asking it to review St. Louis County Judge Bruce Hilton’s ruling upholding Williams’ conviction.

Judge W. Brent Powell wrote in the unanimous decision that Dorsey "has not demonstrated he is actually innocent” of the killing.

The case is the first brought under a redistricting process that was substantially changed from the one in place previously.

St. Louis argues in its lawsuit that the law legislators passed in 2021 violates the state’s constitution by creating an unfunded mandate for the city and for containing too many unrelated provisions.

Updated Thursday, July 17 to include a statement from Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones (R-Eureka). Seventeen years after his first nomination, former...