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Monthly Archives: August 2021
What You Should and Shouldn’t Do With Mail from the IRS
Take timely action. If you owe and you act quickly, you minimize additional interest and penalty charges. Review the information. If the notice is about a changed or corrected tax return, you should compare the information with the original tax … Continue reading
Your Questions About the Advance Child Tax Credit Payments Answered
The Advance Child Tax Credit allows those who qualify to receive advance payments of the tax credit. The IRS will pay half the total credit amount in advance monthly payments through December 2021. Who Qualifies? For tax year 2021, a … Continue reading
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Triple Damages and Attorney Fee for Removal of Fixtures
In 2016, Landlord and Tenant were unable to negotiate an extension to their lease. Tenant then retained a third party to remove permanent light fixtures from the property. Tenant promised the third party that they could keep or dispose of … Continue reading
Reckless Disclosure Statement Yields Punitive Damages and Attorney Fees
The Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) serves to protect consumers, and it prohibits “false, fraudulent or deceptive merchandising practices.” Plaintiff Tiffanie Soetaert sued Platinum Realty of Missouri alleging that the company violated this act. Soetaert purchased a home that she … Continue reading
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Personal Injury, Statute of Limitations, and Relation Back Doctrine
On February 1, 2018, Angela Brown filed suit against VAALP. She alleged that she had slipped on ice and suffered permanent injury to her body as she was visiting a tenant who lived in the Victoria Arms Apartments, a property … Continue reading
Judicial Immunity Affirmed by Missouri Court of Appeals
Doris Jean Stalnacker sued Judge David Dolan for false imprisonment, seeking $2M in damages. Judge Dolan had presided over a criminal case as a circuit court judge where Stalnacker was charged and placed on probation. Judge Dolan revoked Stalnacker’s probation, … Continue reading
Share of Business Sought, Summary Judgment for Defense Partially Successful in Missouri Court of Appeals
In 2011 Austin Watterson, Josh Wilson, and Mike West entered into an agreement in which they were all working under the LLC of Wilson Home Development (WHD). The terms of this agreement are in dispute. In May of 2011, Watterson … Continue reading
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Consideration for Arbitration Agreement and Delegation Clause Was Illusory
Telissah Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri sued her former employer, Menard Inc., alleging employment discrimination. Menard argued that she had signed an arbitration agreement in her Employee/Employer Agreement, which, if upheld, would have moved the claims out of state court … Continue reading
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CDC to Halt Evictions in Counties with High Rates of COVID-19 Transmission
This order is being issued in response to a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases across the country as the Delta variant continues to spread. The CDC says that mass evictions would worsen the situation and that if people … Continue reading
Missouri Court of Appeals Declares Notice Insufficient for Unlawful Detainer
In this case, the parties signed no new lease or extension, and the lease provided expired and hold-over created a month-to-month tenancy. Month-to-month tenancy is subject to termination at the end of the rental month, and after one month’s written … Continue reading