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

U.S. Supreme Court justices hinted they might strike down President Barack Obama’s health care law as the court’s Republican appointees suggested Congress went too far by requiring Americans to obtain insurance.

I have often argued that law schools do little to prepare graduates for dealing with “The Business of Law” (finance, practice management, client relations) that determines practice success. This puts the onus on new lawyers to do the preparation themselves, especially if they are starting practice on their own.

When the sun hits the brilliant white marble of the Supreme Court building on a clear spring day, it is so bright you can’t look at it. Thus illuminated, the court becomes the sun: the epicenter of the Washington world.

Local real estate agents report they are selling more existing homes these days, but caution that it is too early to predict a long-term recovery in the housing market.

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its historic arguments on President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul with several justices suggesting they are prepared to rule this year rather than wait for the law to take full effect.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the power of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel to bring complaints when the board lacks a quorum.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed disinclined last week to allow a man accused of assaulting former Vice President Dick Cheney to sue his Secret Service detail for retaliatory arrest.

You probably want to bite your tongue next time you get angry dealing with a federal court employee. They take threats seriously.

Arch Coal can continue with its plans to build a 2,300-acre coal mine in West Virginia, despite a veto from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled today that permits issued to Arch Coal were valid, despite EPA’s nixing them.

A special relationship is not required for one to owe a duty of care to protect the other if there’s a foreseeable risk of harm, the Illinois Supreme Court said in a 4-2 decision, keeping alive a lawsuit alleging CSX Transportation was responsible for the wife of one of its employees contracting mesothelioma.

The August 2011 award in favor of American Century Investments — made public just this week — is among the largest reported in Missouri history and almost certainly the largest ever paid.