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MIDDLETON v. MISSOURI DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. SC 89571.

278 S.W.3d 193 (2009)

John C. MIDDLETON, et al., Appellants, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing March 31, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Luby, Public Interest Litigation Clinic, Kansas City, John W. Simon, Constitutional Advocacy, LLC, Christopher E. McGraugh, Leritz, Plunkert & Bruning, P.C., S. Paige Canfield, Richard Sindel, Sindel Sindel & Noble, P.C., St. Louis, Cheryl A. Pilate, Rebecca L. Kurz, Morgan Pilate LLC, Olathe, for appellants.

Chris Koster, Atty. Gen., Michael J. Spillane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondents.

Jean Maneke, The Maneke Law Group, L.C., Kansas City, for amicus curiae Missouri Press Association.

Michael J. Gorla, Eric W. Butts, St. Louis, Jennifer Herndon, Florissant, Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, Columbus, MS, John K. Power, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, Jennifer A. Merrigan, Public Interest Litigation Clinic, Kansas City, Jeremy S. Weis, Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt LLP, Prairie Village, KS, for amicus curiae.

MARY R. RUSSELL, Judge.

Seventeen inmates who have been sentenced to death and other interested parties ("Appellants") challenge the Missouri Department of Corrections' ("DOC") adoption of a lethal injection protocol. Appellants allege that DOC violated the Missouri Administrative Procedure Act ("MAPA") section 536.021, RSMo Supp. 2007,1 in that DOC did not undertake notice and public comment rulemaking when formulating the protocol. They...

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