…interests first, while keeping costs reasonable. RDM tries cases. RDM is ready for trial. Over the decades, our best practices, processes, training, and documents have been revised, updated, and customized so that in many cases we can avoid “reinventing the wheel.” By way of our professionalism, experience, and attention to detail, RDM has earned the…
On November 3rd, 2020, the Missouri Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. (“J&J”) in Robert Ingham et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., letting stand a state appellate decision which affirmed a $2.2 billion jury verdict against the consumer giant and for women...
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...medical marijuana patients. See Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC, 78 N.E.3d 37 (Mass. 2017), and see Conn. Gen. Stat. §21a-408p; Del. Code tit. 16, §4905A. Despite these protections, Missouri’s Amendment 3 still allows an employer to enforce a drug-free policy if the failure to enforce a policy results in monetary or licensing-related benefits...
...freedom in Missouri, with roughly half of them prevailing in their petitions. Many of these cases were filed at the Old Courthouse, located at the doorstep of RDM’s St. Louis office. The petitions were grounded in the “once free, always free” doctrine established in Winny. The case established that when an enslaved person was taken...
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...for an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation if doing so would create an undue hardship. An undue hardship would include accommodations that are excessively costly, extensive, substantial, disruptive, or fundamentally alter the nature or operation of the business. Accommodations are not free, and, at times, can be expensive. However, there are free and less-expensive...
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