State Ex Rel. DePaul Health Center v. Mummert

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This original action in mandamus is another in a seemingly unending series of extraordinary -writ actions in which civil tort plaintiffs and defendants enter protracted procedural plotting to embrace or avoid the generous juries of the City of St. Louis. Our jurisdiction is founded on Article V, Section 4 of the Missouri Constitution.

In this case we consider whether the 1989 amendment to Sections 506.110, RSMo Cum.Supp.1998, and adoption of Section 476.-410, RSMo Cum.Supp.1993, overrule a long line of Missouri case law culminating in Oney v. Pattison, 747 S.W.2d 187 (Mo. banc…