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

Just like the Lord, the federal government giveth and taketh away. And like the Lord, the federal government has its own timetable for doing things, especially when it comes to taking away.

There’s been an uptick in class actions over employment screening practices that use consumer reports as grounds for making decisions about job applicants or employees.

Candidate filing for the August primary election opened at 8 a.m. this morning after a Cole County judge on Monday refused to grant a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit seeking to delay the opening of filing for state Senate candidates.

The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the challenge to the appellate commission-drawn state House redistricting map.

Scroll through the photo slideshow of the 2012 Justice for All Ball held Feb. 26 at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

St. Louis-based Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, won the dismissal of a lawsuit by growers of organic crops seeking to have its patents for genetically altered seeds invalidated.

A John Doe plaintiff must register as a sex offender although he received a suspended imposition of sentence and completed probation.

Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, agreed to settle all pending litigation relating to dioxin contamination from a plant in Nitro, W.Va., that produced Agent Orange herbicide decades ago.

From time to time, I hear people say something like, “It’s not only important the judicial system be fair; it is important the judicial system be perceived as fair.”

What a difference a jury instruction makes. A retrial of a groundbreaking case brought by a smoker of low-tar or “light” cigarettes against Philip Morris has resulted in a $25 million jury verdict.

A quiet settlement ended a case that could have determined the constitutionality of a law that gives extra compensation to those who lose their homes to eminent domain.