State ex rel: Amanda Pryor v. Douglas Nelson and Chris Koster

Amanda Pryor, as next friend for the four minor children of Zachary Snyder, appeals the circuit court’s judgment dismissing her petition for a writ of mandamus against Douglas E. Nelson, the Commissioner of the Office of Administration of the State of Missouri, and Chris Foster, the Attorney General of the State of Missouri (collectively, “Respondents”). Pryor sought the writ to compel Respondents to issue checks from the State Legal Expense Fund (“the Fund”) to satisfy a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (“federal court”) against a…