Vinson v. Vinson
Our lawyers tried a multi-week dissolution case between the founders of a mortgage banking company that, in 2004, generated more that $3 billion in mortgages.
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Bennett’s Cross-Exam of Metro Chief Likened to “A Few Good Men”
Not since Jack Nicholson, as Col. Nathan Jessep, took the stand in "A Few Good Men" has a witness self-destructed the way Larry Salci did this week in a Clayton courtroom. Mr. Salci, the president of the Metro transit agency, admitted that he had never read the contracts that his…
Metro Chief Takes Stand
Metro President Larry Salci met the CEO of a worldwide engineering company at a hotel coffee shop in Salt Lake City in 2003 to complain about failures in its work on an eight-mile MetroLink extension. That impromptu meeting, Salci told a jury Monday in St. Louis County Circuit Court, failed…
Bennett Quoted in Article Regarding Unpublished Court Opinions
He had taken a legal malpractice case to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District and received an order from a three-judge panel instead of a published opinion. Published opinions appear in caselaw books and on the court's Web site and can be cited; memorandums such as the 10-page…
John Comerford Joins Firm
In August 2007, a new lawyer joined the firm, bringing the total number to six. John Comerford, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Georgetown University Law Center, joins Dowd Bennett. Mr.Comerford previously served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for seven and a half years.
Dowd Bennett Wins Reversal on Appeal in Americans with Disabilities Act Case
After the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas granted judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against a retailer employer, Dowd Bennett lawyers handled the employer’s appeal and prevailed.
Synergetics, Inc. v. Hurst et al.
In June of 2007, our lawyers conducted a four-day bench trial over a motion to set aside a multi-million judgment and for sanctions.
British Building Material Manuafacturer Wins $36M Verdict in Breach of Contract Case
A British building material manufacturer has won a $36 million verdict in its federal breach of contract case against Zoltek Corporation, a St. Louis-based carbon fiber manufacturer. In its lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Structural Polymer Systems, Ltd. claimed that Zoltek quit supplying its requirements…
Zoltek to Challenge $36M Jury Verdict
A jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis awarded $36 million Wednesday to Structural Polymer Group Ltd. in a breach of contract suit against Zoltek Cos. Inc. In addition, U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson is considering an order that would require Zoltek to provide carbon fiber to Structural Polymer…
Structural Polymer Group Ltd. et al. v. Zoltek, Inc. et al.
In November 2006, our lawyers tried to verdict a four-week jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.