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

Unfortunately for the St. Charles County Collector of Revenue, the playground rule of finders-keepers does not apply to mistakenly paid taxes, as the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, ruled on Tuesday the county must give Ford Motor Credit back ...

Much has been written about President Bush’s desire to appoint a strict constructionist to the U.S. Supreme Court, and presumably he is doing so with the nomination of John Roberts, but the question becomes: How absolute is the president in ...

Kansas City Southern Railway has leased five of its branch lines to three railroads owned by Watco, a short-line railroad company. The leased lines include the KCSR Waldron Branch from east of Heavener, Okla., to Waldron, Ark.; the Nashville Branch ...

Police officers may not take a second bite of the apple once they’ve dismissed a detainee, even if they have a strong suspicion the party might be a scofflaw. In State of Missouri vs. Oscar Barreras Sanchez (alias Antonio Lopez) ...

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, which had increased in June, dipped in July to 103.2, down 2.8 percent from 106.2 last month. The Present Situation Index decreased to 118.5 from 120.8, a decline of 1.9 percent. The Expectations Index ...

Predicting how the new tort reform laws will impact medical malpractice cases come Aug. 28 is a lot like trying to figure out where a hurricane will hit and how much damage it will leave in its wake. Like the ...

Reports of the death of the manufacturing industry in the United States have been greatly exaggerated, according to Al Frink, an assistant secretary in the Department of Commerce. The commerce official was in St. Charles Friday to present an award ...

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, most Americans seem to take the subtitles that they read while watching television, and the elevators that they take to get to the office, for granted. Perhaps ...

A recent 2nd Circuit decision holding that a disclaimer in a law firm’s debt collection letter was sufficient to immunize it from liability under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act could cause more lawyers to adopt “safe harbor” language. “For ...

A sympathetic Western District Court of Appeals panel acknowledged that the plaintiff in an employment termination dispute suffered debilitating health issues but could not describe her as disabled under the Missouri Human Rights Act. In Karen Medley v. Valentine Radford ...