Representative Cases

Wallace v. Debron Corp., 494 F. 2d 674 (8th Cir. 1974), only U.S. Circuit Court decision to hold invalid a company rule discharging employees for excessive wage garnishments on the grounds that it had a disparate racial impact.

Amir v. St. Louis University, 184 F. 3d 1017 (8th Cir. 1999), holding that a medical student with obsessive compulsive disorder who was dismissed from medical school after filing suit against the school could pursue his ADA retaliation suit against the university on account of his dismissal.

Shores v. Express Lending Services, Inc., 998 S.W. 2d 122 (Mo. App. E.D. 1999), overturning a trial court's dismissal of a suit by an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease against a mortgage brokerage firm which she and her relatives claimed tricked her into borrowing money she had no way of repaying and setting her up for an attempted foreclosure on her mortgage.