Missouri Alliance for Retired Americans v. Department of Labor & Industrial Relations

PLURALITY OPINION

For the reasons set forth below, the Court concludes that the plaintiff labor organizations do not have standing to raise eight of the claims they assert in an attempt to strike down the 2005 amendments to the state workers’ compensation law because those claims are not yet ripe for review. Six of these claims argue that specific provisions of the workers’ compensation act, as amended in 2005, are unconstitutional because the application of those particular provisions deprives workers of due process, violates the open courts provision of the Missouri constitution or violates…