Judge considering request to end Sunshine suit against Missouri governor

St. Louis lawyer Elad Gross wants the Cole County Circuit Court to order Gov. Mike Parson and his staff to respond to Gross' lengthy Sunshine Law requests, and to rule that the governor's office has violated provisions of that law.

But Jeremiah Morgan, the state's deputy attorney general for civil cases, told Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce on Tuesday morning that Gross' case should be dismissed, "as a matter of law."

The attorney general's office has asked the court to issue a "judgment on the pleadings" — that is, to rule there are no disputed facts, and the law is on the governor's side.

But, Gross told Joyce, "A judgment on the pleadings is not the way to go when you have factual disputes."

And, he argued, there are plenty of disagreements about the facts in the case.

Read more: http://www.newstribune.com/news/local/story/2019/may/22/joyce-considering-state-request-to-end-gross-sunshine-suit-against-parson/779875/
(Jefferson City News Tribune)