Following, in chronological order, are all Commission opinions issued since its inception in 1982. To link to the summary and full text of an opinion, please click on the case name. If the Supreme Court of Missouri has reviewed a particular decision, a link to that review will be provided from the decision page. The decisions have been converted to portable digital format (PDF) to accommodate various word processors. (If you do not already have Acrobat reader, which is necessary to read the PDF files, you may obtain it for free at the Adobe website. A set of free tools that allow visually disabled users to read documents in Adobe PDF format is available from access.adobe.com.)
The summaries of the Commission decisions and Supreme Court reviews are prepared by judicial staff for the interest and convenience of the reader. The summaries do not reflect the opinion of the Judicial Finance Commission or the Supreme Court of Missouri. They are unofficial, and they should not be quoted or cited.
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83-0002, St. Louis County v. Twenty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Professional liability insurance for judges and travel funds for an individual judge.
84-0004, St. Louis County v. Twenty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Liability insurance for judges and for juvenile court personnel, increase in travel funds for judges, attorney's fees for legal representation of circuit court, and attorney's fees for legal representation by personal attorney for judge arising out of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the court and an individual judge.
84-0006, City of St. Louis v. Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Circuit clerk's purchase of computer mainframe for clerk's office to replace existing system for computerized financial accounting system without meeting of the minds with local governing body.
84-0007, City of St. Louis v. Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Construction of restroom facilities in three jury rooms, capital improvements to jury room, construction of a juror's lounge, and automation of manually operated elevator in Civil Courts Building, salary increase and filling positions at juvenile court (challenged requests include budget items from circuit court, circuit clerk, jury commissioner, sheriff, and juvenile court).
85-0008, St. Louis County v. Twenty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Payment of circuit judges attorney's fees for defense of legal actions pertaining to the administration of the court.
85-0010, Pike County v. Eleventh Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Deputy sheriff pay increases and hiring of additional deputy sheriff ordered by circuit court under section 57.250, RSMo 1978.
87-0015 consolidated with 88-0019, St. Louis County v. Twenty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Court security improvements.
89-0030, Buchanan County v. Fifth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Juvenile office and children's home employee salary increases.
89-0031, Jefferson County v. Twenty-Third Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Liability insurance for judges, funding for additional court reporter and deputy clerk, as well as a part-time attorney and a part-time maintenance worker, and salary increases for existing juvenile office employees.
89-0036, Monroe County v. Tenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Budget request for Juvenile Justice Center, salary increase for juvenile officer, and funding for assistant juvenile officer.
91-0042, Greene County v. Thirty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Temporary employee funding, salary increase for all circuit court personnel, funding for new mail employee, and request for equipment.
98-0051, Macon County v. Forty-First Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Temporary relocation of court offices due to alleged illness of court employees for pesticides sprayed in the courthouse, equipment requests, salary increases for deputy sheriffs, jailers, and juvenile employees, request for legal fees and attorney's fees.
98-0052, Callaway County Commission v. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Salary increases for deputy sheriffs.
99-0054, Stone County v. Thirty-Ninth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Juvenile Court operations expenses – maintenance of effort, section 211.393.6, RSMo Supp. 1998.
01-0059, Cooper County v. Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Funding for juvenile officer salary position funded by a state grant for second half of 2001 budget year.
01-0060, St. Charles County v. Eleventh Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: 2002 Juvenile budget for additional security personnel at the juvenile court/detention facility.
01-0061, Cape Girardeau County, Bollinger County, and Perry County v. Thirty-Second Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Juvenile budget and maintenance of effort for construction of a new juvenile detention center in Cape Girardeau County.
03-0063, Lafayette County v. Fifteenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Circuit court set salaries of deputy sheriffs pursuant to section 57.250, RSMo 2000, based on independent salary survey. Sheriff also moved to intervene as a separate party to defend the actions of the circuit court.
03-0064, Cooper County v. Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Request to fund salary for grant position of deputy juvenile officer for last half of 2003 budget year.
04-0066, Cooper County v. Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
ISSUE: Request to fund salary for grant position of deputy juvenile officer for last half of 2003 and 2004 budget year; maintenance of effort calculation under section 211.393.6, RSMo; request for attorney's fees in both 2003 and 2004; allegation of Hancock violation if the circuit's order to pay deputy juvenile officer's salary is enforced.
14-0074 consolidated with 14-0075, Adair County Missouri v. Circuit Court of the 2nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri, consolidated with Lewis County Missouri v. Circuit Court of the 2nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri.
16-0077, Lincoln County Commission, et al. v. Forty-Fifth Judicial Circuit
20-0081, Franklin County, et al. v. Twentieth Judicial Circuit, affirmed on appeal by the Supreme Court of Missouri in case number SC99010