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

State Supreme Court arguments were heard last week on a case involving claims against a high-ranking officer in the Doe Run Resources Corp. in Herculaneum and whether to transfer the case to a venue other than the city of St. ...

The first place a lawyer who is faced with a difficult opposing counsel should look for a solution is within because it takes two people to create and maintain hostility. That was the message at a continuing legal education (CLE) ...

Despite terms of a “contractual, non-modifiable and non-dischargeable” maintenance, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in favor of an ex-husband’s request to terminate maintenance because his ex-wife remarried. “This is a case of when language is ...

Even if a male co-worker routinely criticized the work of a female box maker in a meat packing plant, because he was not her ‘supervisor,’ and because the comments were not ‘based on sex,’ there is no harassment claim under ...

A decision handed down by the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reflects the effects of a financially strapped state on its judicial system. In its reversed opinion, the high court authorized a bi-county circuit court to tap into funding from ...

A Warrenton woman has been cleared of making improper purchases and transfers from the bank account of her stepfather and for failing to fulfill her duties as conservator of his estate. The probate judge who issued the letters that made ...

On the same day the Missouri Supreme Court hears arguments for and against the right to carry concealed weapons, two local experts will face off in a debate. On January 22, Allen Rostron, a University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School ...

Two of the longest-serving judges on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals squared off on a sentencing issue; also part of the mix was 8th Circuit Judge Diana E. Murphy, who serves as the chair of the U.S. Sentencing ...

No matter how aboveboard the employer, if an employee files a lawsuit, it is a no-win situation for any company, large or small. Preston Oade is an attorney with the Denver law office of Holme, Roberts & Owen, and he ...

An ambiguous release will determine the fate of a so-called dangerous building, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District in a reversed and remanded opinion. In Robert L. Woodson, Appellant v. City of Independence, et al., Respondent, ...

Maintenance monies awarded from a divorce decree cannot account for distribution of marital property, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, found in a reversed decision on Tuesday. “To accept Husband’s argument and affirm the motion court is to countenance ...