Wednesday, August 28, 2019

LSEM honors 12 for service to the region

Staff report

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri honored 12 attorneys, lawmakers and community leaders and organizations for their work to benefit the region at its 2019 For The Common Good Awards Aug. 16 at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis.
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Inmates face tough roads in wrongful-death claims


By SCOTT LAUCK 
slauck@molawyersmedia.com

It’s not easy to maintain a wrongful-death suit from prison.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Aug. 13 that an incarcerated man who repeatedly but unsuccessfully sought to intervene in a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from his son’s fatal police shooting was out of luck when the suit was dismissed.
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