We hope that this is finally the year that the House will stand up and join the Senate to give Missouri consumers and small businesses protections for not only cell phones, but for fax machines, too.

This ruling did not find a constitutional bar to the substance of the law, but rather said that the process that was used to pass the law was unconstitutional.

We will be informing our clients, the Department of Corrections, of this stay. We will continue to defend the state on this matter.

We continue to look at other people that may have had some involvement here.

The state will no longer charge the $2 fee.