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About Sam A. Moore
Sam joined Wagstaff & Cartmell in October of 2022. Early in his tenure with the firm, he worked on cases involving Products Liability, Commercial Disputes, and Toxic Torts. Sam is a Kansas City native, having grown up in the Brookside neighborhood and graduated from Rockhurst High School in 2014. He then received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Economics with a minor in Spanish, his Masters of Public Administration, and finally in December of 2020 his Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
Afterwards he returned to Kansas City and served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Commissioner Nancy Alemifar in the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, MO. During Law School, Sam worked as a summer Law Clerk for the Hon. Judge Brian Wimes in the United States Courts for the Western District of Missouri, and was published in the Oklahoma Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal. He served as class representative in the Student Bar Association, Editor for the Oklahoma Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal, and on the executive team for the Environmental Law Students Association.
Sam received the Am Jur Awards for Constitutional Law & for Wind Law, and served in the school's Civil Clinic as a Licensed Legal Intern. Sam is passionate about running, cycling, camping, reading, his hometown, and the Kansas City Chiefs! Law Clerk to the Hon. Nancy Alemifar in the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, MO Law Clerk at Raymond E. Moore, P.C., in Independence, MO Licensed Legal Intern at the University of Oklahoma Civil Law Clinic Law Clerk to the Hon. Brian Wimes in the US Courts for the Western District of Missouri
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff & Cartmell
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San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.
Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.
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