Lawyers Rate Local Judges
In the November general election, Missouri voters will determine whether Non-Partisan judges whose names are on their ballot should be retained for another term. To help them decide, The Missouri Bar has provided information they feel is important in making those decisions.
Members of The Missouri Bar have evaluated each of the judges who will be [...]
Slay Testifies, Verdict Expected Soon
Mayor Francis Slay took the stand today in the trial of Percy Green vs. The City of St. Louis. He testified — as did his deputy, Barb Geisman, yesterday and his chief of staff, Jeff Rainford, later this morning — that Green was not fired in retribution for comments he made in a June 17, [...]
Sherman’s About to Have a Bad Day
State Rep. Sherman Parker, who is running against Congressman Todd Akin in Tuesday’s Republican primary, was arrested this week for failing to appear in court for two tickets. Parker was released on $100 bond.
Read Jake Wagman’s arresting story in tomorrow’s Post-Dispatch.
UPDATE: Parker has posted a statement regarding this incident in the comments section of this [...]
Case Against Purdy Postponed
Sources tell PUB DEF that the lawsuit to remove Bill Purdy from the school board will not be heard today. The hearing has been postponed for several weeks to late August.
Developing…
Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
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Lawsuit Filed to Remove Purdy
KTVI Channel 2 is reporting that a lawsuit is being filed by citizens on behalf of former Superintendent Creg Williams and former Vashon basketball coach Floyd Irons, who were both were fired last week. The lawsuit reportedly seeks to remove board member Bill Purdy.
Channel 5 reporter Sharon Stevens gives a little more detail. She reports [...]
Executions Halted in Missouri
District Judge Fernando Gaitan, Jr. today ordered the State of Missouri to halt all executions until its procedures are reviewed.
The Associated Press is reporting that the judge said those procedures presented an “unnecessary risk” of “unconstitutional pain and suffering” to inmates on death row.
The decision could mean some extra time for Reggie Clemons, whose case [...]
Green Found Not Guilty
Legendary activist Percy Green was found not guilty today on charges of resisting arrest stemming from a November 2003 incident in which Green was forcibly removed from a public meeting of the St. Louis Board of Education.
Judge James Walls cleared Green after hearing testimony on his behalf from school board member William Purdy, Teachers’ Union [...]
State won’t appeal gay adoption case
The State of Missouri will no longer pursue appealing a recent court decision that allowed a lesbian couple to adopt their foster child.
Attorney General Jay Nixon said that when Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill which repealed the state law that banned sexual contact between two people of the same sex, the case became moot.
A [...]
Scalia in St. Louis
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be in town Wednesday, May 3.
Scalia will attend a Law Day Mass at the Old Cathedral in downtown St. Louis at 11:00 a.m. Following mass, he will be a featured speaker and honoree at the annual Law Day luncheon hosted by the Bar Association of Missouri-St. Louis (BAMSL) at [...]
Court: Law forbiding ex-cons from running for office is Unconstitutional
In a unanimous decision issued today, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision striking down a law prohibiting people convicted of federal crimes from running for elective office.
The trial court had found that the section violated equal protection. The Supreme Court found that the section violated the state constitution’s single-subject requirement pertaining to [...]
