KANSAS CITY v. BD OF ELECTION COM'RS

No. SC 95368.

505 S.W.3d 795 (2017)

CITY OF KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Respondent, v. KANSAS CITY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants, Rev. Samuel E. Mann, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en banc.

Opinion issued January 17, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The committee was represented by Taylor Fields and J. David Bowers of Fields & Brown LLC in Kansas City, (816) 474-1700, and Clinton Adams Jr. , an attorney in Kansas City, (816) 221-8567.

The city was represented by Sarah Baxter of the city attorney's office in Kansas City, (816) 513-3124.

Several entities and officials filed briefs as friends of the Court. The Municipal and Labor Law Scholars, National Employment Law Project and Missouri Jobs with Justice were represented by Christopher N. Grant of Schuchat, Cook & Werner in St. Louis, (314) 621-2626. The cities of Florissant and University City, Senators Jamilah Nasheed and Jill Schupp, Representative Tracy McCreery, and Empower Missouri were represented by John J. Ammann of the Saint Louis University Legal Clinic in St. Louis, (314) 977-2778.


The City of Kansas City (the "City") filed this action seeking to have the trial court order the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners and other local election authorities serving the City (collectively, the "Local Election Authorities") to remove from the November 3, 2015, ballot a proposed ordinance establishing a...

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