Municipal Issue Report Articles

In Karney v. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, a Missouri Supreme Court opinion issued March 31, 2020, Missouri’s highest court invalidated p...

In a long-awaited decision, the Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed, and reversed in small part, judgment in favor of four Missouri Cities on their claims ag...

The Missouri Court of appeals, in Harper et al. v. Missouri State Highway Patrol, et al. (Mo App. Nov. 5, 2019), held that the United States

The Missouri Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s refusal to award attorneys’ fees against a County for the County’s “bad faith” actions, including ...

The Missouri Court of appeals recently clarified the "litigation" exception to Missouri's Sunshine Law (RSMo. § 610 et. seq.) after an...

A petition to establish a Board of Freeholders to analyze the issue has finally gathered enough signatures.

The General Assembly passed a few bills impacting Missouri municipalities this season, including (but not limited to) the following: Cities and Counties requ...

Better Together, the group that proposed a constitutional amendment to merge St. Louis City and St. Louis County via a statewide vote has pulled its initiati...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Free the Nipple v. City of Springfield, recently upheld a Missouri City’s indecent exposure ordinance that banned women,...

On January 28, 2019, Better Together, a project of private nonprofit group Missouri Council for a Better Economy, released their much-anticipated St. Louis ...

Based on your input and recent municipal developments, the 2019 tentative Academy training session topic schedule has been established as follows: We want to...

On November 6, 2018, in Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, the United States Supreme Court held that all state and local governments, no matter their size ...

Although the Better Together Task Force has not yet finalized its report (expected to be released in January 2019), a St. Louis Business Journal article pred...

The Missouri Court of Appeals, in Missouri Landowners Alliance et al., v. Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC, et al., threw out claims against the Monroe Coun...

The General Assembly passed several bills impacting Missouri municipalities this session, including (but not limited to) the following: Increase to Motor Fue...

Several bills are pending in the Missouri legislature that may have significant impact on municipal interests, including the following: “Small Cell” Wireless...

A city police officer called an ambulance for a suspect who had been arrested and was visibly ill. The city had no written contract with the ambulance distri...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of Twin Oaks, Missouri in a lawsuit (Havlack v. Village of Twin Oaks, (8th Cir. July 26, 2017)) that...

Due to the enactment of SB 111 this year, cities should review their Declaration of Candidacy forms for the upcoming municipal elections. SB 111 amended Sect...

The General Assembly passed several bills that impact Missouri municipalities in the recently ended legislative session, including the following: Municipal T...