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Quiet titles and contract for deed statutes are legal loopholes being employed to take the homes of non-English speaking and low-income families.
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A bill pending in the Kansas Legislature would remove language in the state’s criminal sodomy law that targets LGBTQ people. Advocates say action is decades past due.
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Known as SB8, the highly restrictive law has spawned a copycat bill for consideration in Missouri.
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In "Profit and Punishment," Tony Messenger dissects the ways in which America is creating a new model of debtors' prison.
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The Tenant Representation Initiative, created by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, has saved hundreds of tenants from eviction through what it says is much needed legal counsel. “It’s like a bus had just been removed off my body," said one client, "because I felt like I was being ran over by a bus."
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Staffed by Truman Fellows, the Tenant Representation Initiative was started to keep clients in their homes during the pandemic
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In a memoir of her 19 years on the bench, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell points to what is broken in our judicial system and how it can be fixed.
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Dennis Moriarty was thinking of the bees and butterflies when he replaced all the grass in his front yard with wildflowers.
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The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is awarding the 2021 Impact of the Year award to lawyers known as the 'Pro Bonos.'
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What we can learn from Kansas City's residential satisfaction survey, and why a group of Jackson County lawyers were nationally recognized for their work.
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In Kansas and Missouri, public defenders have struggled for years with low pay and high caseloads.
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LGBTQ commissioners on the issues they want to address, Missouri Governor Mike Parson's solution to Missouri's labor shortage and how a century-old trial resonates today.