Sheena R. Hamilton has been appointed to the Eighth Circuit Civil Jury Instruction Sub-Committee. The Sub-Committee will formulate and present proposed changes to the Civil Jury Instructions for presentation to the Committee on Model Jury Instructions for the District Courts of the Eighth Circuit at the 2020 Eighth Circuit…
On August 17, 2018, Sheena R. Hamilton presented to the judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and federal practitioners at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The national conference included speakers and panelists offering attorneys the opportunity to learn alongside circuit, district, magistrate, and…
Dowd Bennett Partners Jim Bennett and Jennifer Kingston represented Nucor Corporation in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on an appeal of the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Nucor on plaintiff’s claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). On March 1, 2018,…
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