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…
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…
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…
On April 7, 2010, Dowd Bennett lawyers Jim Bennett, Erika Anderson, and Jennifer Aspinall obtained a jury verdict for their client in a case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
On March 24, 2010, a federal lawsuit against a corporate officer represented by Dowd Bennett attorneys Ed Dowd and John Comerford was dismissed upon motion of the defendants. The suit alleged that Dowd Bennett’s client and other defendants breached their fiduciary duties in administering an ERISA plan.
On March 2, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Dowd Bennett’s national retailer client.
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…
On February 25, 2010, a unanimous jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas returned a verdict in favor of Dowd Bennett client Fresenius Medical Care. The case was brought by a private qui tam relator under the False Claims Act.
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…
In February, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s order dismissing all of plaintiffs’ claims against Dowd Bennett’s client Mermart, LLC.
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