Attorney Richard Brian Hein's Legal Cases

DUI and DWI

Harder v. Director of Revenue, 7 S.W.3d 1 (Mo. App.E.D. 1999)

Jan 01, 1999

OUTCOME: Affirmed.

Defended appeal by Department of Revenue of favorable trial court decision regarding alcohol license suspension.

Contracts and agreements

Serafin v. Med 90, Inc., 963 S.W.2d 362 (Mo.App. E.D. 1998)

Jan 06, 1998

OUTCOME: Affirmed, Cert. Denied.

Represented Med 90, Inc. on appeal of favorable ruling that no oral contract existed with the plaintiff. The Court held the doctrine of the law of the case was inapplicable to a finding of the trial c ... ourt where the appellate court reversed the lower court's judgment, rendering that judgment a nullity.

Constitutional

Slay v. Slay, 965 S.W.2d 845 (Mo.banc 1998)

Jan 01, 1998

OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded.

This case ended up throwing most Missouri Divorce Lawyers and, more importantly, their clients, into a huge but understandable panic. It was a Missouri Supreme Court case I briefed and argued involving ... the constitutional role of "Commissioners", as opposed to "Article III Judges" under the Missouri Constitution, within the Family Court system. The Supreme Court ruled that all Divorce Decrees signed by "Commissioners" instead of "Judges" were null and void, in spite of my argument that the "Commissioners" were, in fact, Judges because everyone treated them as Judges. This unfortunate ruling meant that many thousands upon thousands of people throughout Missouri going back umpteen years who thought they were divorced were not, in fact, legally divorced because a "Judge" had not signed their Divorce Decrees. Ouch!

Child abuse

Steele v. Steele, 978 S.W.2d 835 (Mo.App.W.D. 1998)

Jan 01, 1998

OUTCOME: Adverse trial court ruling reversed.

Appealed the denial of a Motion for Modification based on the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, and prevailed before the Western District Court of Appeals in Kansas City to provide our client ano ... ther opportunity to see his children.

Administrative law

Hoffman v. State Bd. of Registration for the Healing Arts, 936 S.W.2d 182 (1996)

Jan 01, 1996