20 February 2024

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, is scheduled to convene court Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia. The arguments will be held at Hulston Hall on campus. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., a three-judge panel consisting of Judge Alok Ahuja, Judge Cindy Martin and Judge Tom Chapman will hear oral arguments in four cases on the docket. After the oral arguments, the judges will take time to discuss the court system, explain the proceedings and take general questions from the audience.

Ahuja will preside over the proceedings at the University of Missouri. He was appointed to the Western District in 2007. Previously, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Kansas City. Martin joined the Western District in 2009. She practiced law in Kansas City and Lee’s Summit before joining the court. Chapman was appointed to the Western District in 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment, he served as a circuit judge for the 43rd Judicial Circuit of Missouri (Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and Livingston counties) for more than seven years.

The court regularly convenes court in Kansas City. For more than 25 years, however, the court has held dockets in several of the 45 counties in the court’s jurisdiction, which includes all of northwest Missouri and most of central Missouri. The court convenes oral arguments outside of Kansas City to give individuals an opportunity to observe a part of the judicial system they normally do not see and to familiarize those attending with the court's role in the judicial system.

Attachment: 

summaries of cases scheduled to be argued

Contact: Kimberly K. Boeding, clerk of court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

(816) 889-3600