MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

An $82 million jury verdict was critiqued and defended in oral arguments before the Western District Court of Appeals on Thursday morning. The verdict was in the case of Guadalupe Mejia, who won on a counterclaim against Portfolio Recovery Associates ...

Kansas City Public Schools has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit against the district over the alleged sexual assault of a student by an extended-care program employee. In 2015, the plaintiffs, J.J. and her son, J.J., sued the ...

A class-action lawsuit over asbestos exposure at the Jackson County Courthouse following a renovation in the 1980s has settled for $80 million. The case was set to start opening statements Wednesday at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School ...

The failure to hand over documents during discovery has led to sanctions for the Kansas City Star. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Greg Kays ordered $21,152 in sanctions against Cypress Media, doing business as the Kansas City Star. The sanctions ...

A Jackson County jury has awarded a Kansas man $6.3 million in damages stemming from a traffic crash involving a tractor-trailer and a farm tractor. Roger C. Ross, of Troy, Kansas, brought the suit against Jeschke Ag Service, a Troy ...

An 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has overturned its decision to deny the Missouri Department of Corrections’ requests to block court orders to provide information on the state’s use of an execution drug and its suppliers. In a ...

A federal judge in Kansas has appointed a special master to investigate recordings of privileged attorney-client meetings and phone calls at a Leavenworth detention center. U.S. Judge Julie Robinson appointed David R. Cohen of Cleveland, Ohio in an order Tuesday. ...

The city of Independence reached a $148,290 settlement with an unarmed man shot in the head by a police officer during jury deliberations at trial in late August. The city released the settlement agreement Wednesday through a public records request. ...

A special master will be appointed to hear an allegation that a conversation between Moniteau County Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea and his lawyer following his 2014 arrest was recorded by police and submitted to the Attorney General’s Office. Healea was ...

Nine St. Louis County municipalities will consolidate their municipal courts, Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge announced Thursday at her address at The Missouri Bar’s annual meeting in Lake Ozark. Breckenridge said the state would also assist in the ...

Proposed rule changes to help aging attorneys bow out of legal practice are just part of a list of recommendations in a new report that looks to the future of the legal profession in Missouri. The Joint Task Force on ...