( October 23, 2024, 9:04 AM EDT) -- JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Noting that Missouri state officials have deposited an agreed attorney fee payment of $500,000 and that the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has granted their motion to dismiss with prejudice their appeal of a ruling that imposed a statewide permanent injunction barring enforcement of parts of two new rules that a plaintiff trade association said would have required “a state-authored script” for “incorporating a social or nonfinancial objective into investment advice,” a federal judge in Missouri granted the parties’ joint motion for final judgment....