Judge Weighs Motion to Toss Out Reforms

The Jefferson City judge hearing a constitutional challenge to Missouri's 2005 reform law reportedly gave attorneys reason to believe he wouldn't scuttle the reforms so early in the case. Both sides gave cautious assessments of how Cole County Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder reacted to oral arguments presented on May 19, though the judge apparently seemed unswayed after hearing the plantiffs' attorneys present their case for declaring the law unconstitutional on its face. A coalition of more than 70 labor groups filed the suit in November, seeking to have a Missouri trial court strike dow...