Rule 100.01.Review in Circuit Court.

When a state administrative agency in Missouri makes a decision — denying a license, imposing a penalty, ruling on a benefits claim — the person affected usually doesn't go straight to a jury trial. Instead, a circuit court reviews the agency's decision under a set procedure. Rule 100.01 identifies that procedure by pointing to a specific block of the Missouri statutes, sections 536.100 through 536.150, part of the state's Administrative Procedure Act.

Instead of writing a freestanding rule from scratch, the Missouri Supreme Court adopted these existing statutory provisions as rules of court. That approach folds the legislature's framework for administrative review directly into the rules that circuit courts, lawyers, and agencies use day to day, instead of leaving it as statute alone, separate from the rulebook.

The rule includes one important exception: if the statute governing a particular agency sets out different review procedures, that agency-specific statute controls instead of the general sections 536.100 through 536.150. So a party challenging an agency decision needs to check both this general rule and any special statute that applies to the specific agency involved before assuming the general procedure applies.

This rule also draws a line between practice and procedure, which it addresses, and matters of jurisdiction and venue, which it leaves to statute and to other rules, such as Rule 51.01, instead of folding those subjects into this rule.