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

A class of plaintiffs suing Philip Morris over the marketing of its Marlboro Lights cigarettes is asking for up to $1 billion in damages, plus punitive damages.

After 11 years of litigation, an appeal and a few trips to federal court, a class action lawsuit against Philip Morris is almost over.

Polsinelli Shughart increased its starting salary for new associates by $10,000 in 2011. The firm joins Bryan Cave and Lewis, Rice & Fingersh in hiking new lawyers’ pay in Missouri, after keeping it flat last year.

When President Barack Obama “pivoted” to jobs a few months back (from what, the White House didn’t say), he said he was going to take his plan to rebuild the U.S. economy directly to the American people.

The U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether jails can constitutionally search the private body parts of all new prisoners, including those arrested for traffic violations.

Some women just bug men. Hillary Clinton did (and still does). Nancy Pelosi, who has replaced Clinton as the Scary Democratic Woman in Republican fundraising appeals, surely does. And now Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has joined the club.

From the looks of the youthful, costumed characters swaying to the music and flying colorful balloons, it was hard to tell if Occupy Wall Street was a street fair, a ’60s-style love-in or a protest rally.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial in a capital murder case after a jury found the defendant not guilty of capital murder and deadlocked on a lesser included charge.

When the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority condemned Opal Henderson’s property, it destroyed her business, and the ex-junkyard owner is entitled to compensation for both, lawyer Lynette Petruska argued to the Missouri Court of Appeals today.

Almost two years have passed since Congress amended the Americans with Disabilities Act, lowering the criteria to establish disability status in response to cramped judicial interpretations of the ADA.

A Pennsylvania man who allegedly broke into a St. Louis County hotel room and molested a 9-year-old girl is not entitled to coverage under his homeowner’s policy, the insurer is arguing in a federal lawsuit.