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

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial where a trial judge erroneously held a particular fact to be an element of the charged offense and then granted the defendant’s mid-trial motion for a directed verdict because the prosecution failed to prove that fact.

Owner Jimmy Tebeau agreed to forfeit Camp Zoe and to serve a 30-month prison sentence as part of a plea deal with prosecutors over alleged rampant drug use at the southern Missouri concert site. The 330 acres of land runs along the Current River in Shannon County.

Two associate circuit judges and a lawyer are the nominees to fill a vacancy on the St. Louis circuit bench. The vacancy was created by the appointment of Judge Angela Turner Quigless to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

By a 4-3 vote announced this afternoon, the Missouri Supreme Court allowed the family of a man killed in a truck accident to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the truck’s owner, who did not have workers’ compensation insurance, even after the family had obtained a workers’ compensation award against the company that had contracted with the trucker.

Husch Blackwell welcomes Alisha L. Huls as of counsel in the firm’s St. Louis office where she joins the firm’s intellectual property group.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to let two families sue elementary school principals who kept their children from giving out Christian-themed gifts during classroom parties.

BP Plc can’t have access to 21 documents including e-mail communications between the White House and other top U.S. officials during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010, a federal judge ruled.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether investors must prove that misinformation from Amgen Inc. propped up its stock price before they can pursue a class-action stock-fraud suit against the world’s largest biotechnology company.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to let convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials over torture he said he suffered while in military custody.

President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that extends for five more years 29 federal bankruptcy judgeships that were set to expire.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit by a former a shoe store clerk who says her employer defamed her after she unwittingly gave a customer a receipt containing a racial slur.