The St. Louis Police Board suffered a double loss yesterday—with both the Missouri Supreme Court and the court of appeals rejecting the state-appointed board’s appeal of the ruling denying it an additional $67 million in city funds.
The Missouri Supreme Court said it was not the appropriate venue and dismissed the appeal.
The Court of Appeals said that lawyers for the Police Board had failed to follow the appropriate procedure for the type of case they’d initiated. It too dismissed the appeal, although it did so in a way that will allow the Police Board to refile…