A St. Louis County jury awarded Creve Coeur-based Monsanto a verdict of more than $7.6 million June 28 in the company’s suit against Houston-based ConocoPhillips.
According to Monsanto’s petition, Conoco fell short in delivering petroleum coke that was promised in a sales agreement. Petroleum coke is produced during the oil-refining process and is used by Monsanto to make Roundup herbicides.
A St. Louis County jury awarded agriculture monolith Monsanto a verdict of more than $7.6 million last week in the company’s suit against Houston-based ConocoPhillips.
According to Monsanto’s petition, Conoco fell short in delivering petroleum coke that was promised in a sales agreement. Petroleum coke is produced during the oil-refining process, and Monsanto uses it to make Roundup herbicides.
2010 marks Dowd Bennett Partner Jen Kingston’s second year of service as the Chairperson of the Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure. The St. Louis race is the largest Komen Race in the world, with 66,470 participants registered for the 2009 Race and over $3.25 million dollars in raised to fight breast cancer.
Dowd Bennett is proud to announce our newest partners James E. Crowe, III, Gabriel E. Gore, and Jennifer S. Kingston.
Missouri courts do their jobs in a fair and impartial way without regard to partisan politics. The non-partisan court plan was instituted in Missouri in 1940 because of rampant voter fraud in the 1930s. Since then, most states have adopted what is called the Missouri Plan.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has lost a case involving a woman who alleged Wal-Mart fired her because of her age.
A U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri jury found for Wal-Mart on April 7.
Yvonne Loskot was 67 when she was fired from the De Soto store’s optical center. At the time, she made just under $18 an hour and was the highest-paid optician at the center, according to the EEOC.
Wednesday morning, in a courtroom high atop the city in the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse and 27 floors removed from the reality of the street, a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals listened to lawyers argue about whether InBev ought to be allowed to buy Anheuser-Busch.
Wait a minute, I thought. This is already a done deal. The Clydesdales are charging two grand for an appearance. The Busch family is in exile. The new big shots speak Portuguese. Most importantly, the shareholders have their money.
Appeals court judges Thursday asked how, beyond the language of a state statute, administrative law judges can be fired.
Ron Holliger, general counsel for Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, told the judges the Legislature has the power to create, abolish, modify or change any position – including through appropriations legislation.
“It’s been a general proposition of American law for many, many years that the body that creates a public office can abolish that position,” Holliger said at the hearing before the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District, at the University of Missouri Law School.
March 5, 2010 EL PASO — A federal lawsuit against a medical center with two clinics in El Paso has been dismissed, attorneys for the center said this week.
The suit alleging Medicare fraud by Fresenius Medical Care of North America and a clinic manager, Larry Ramirez, was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Phillip Martinez, attorneys said. Martinez dismissed the case after a jury found that a doctor named in the lawsuit, Dr. Alfonso Chavez, wasn’t liable.
The March/April 2010 edition of Super Lawyers Magazine named both Ed Dowd and Jim Bennett among Missouri’s Super Lawyers in the area of Business Litigation. The selection process for inclusion on the list of Super Lawyers includes peer review by other attorneys in the same primary practice area. The list of attorneys chosen for this recognition appears in the Corporate Counsel Edition of the Super Lawyers Magazine, which is published by Law and Politics.