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

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will visit St. Louis this spring.

A snowplow clears the street in front of the Court of Appeals building in downtown Kansas City on Thursday. Despite 5-8 inches of snow, courts in the city were open for business.

A former St. Louis police officer, who was cleared in an excessive force lawsuit last summer, is suing the Police Department and the Board of Police Commissioners for refusing to pay for his defense.

Step one: Get a judgment. Step two: Get paid. That’s just what DK Interior Solutions is trying to do, according to the company’s lawyer. In October the company, a supplier and quasi-contractor for Michael and Steven Roberts’ Hotel Indigo, won more than $300,000 in a judgment against a group of Roberts’ companies but has not yet been paid.

The phrase cold justice took on a different meaning for Missouri courts Thursday.

Members of an anti-gay church in Kansas opened the next chapter of their ongoing court battle Wednesday over the right to protest at funerals.

Two negatives could equal a positive for Missouri’s judges.

Last week two St. Louis sheriff deputies whose $700,000 punitive damage award was slashed to $150,000 rejected the reduced award and opted instead for a retrial on the issue of punitives only. But on Wednesday, the plaintiffs filed a notice that they intend to appeal the judge’s grant of new trial.

Sansone Group handled the leasing and sale of Cave Springs Square in St. Peters, right, when it was foreclosed on 10 years ago, principal Nick Sansone says.

Floyd Finch was settling into new offices late in 2009 after starting Finch & Campbell. The firm is suing a former client for not returning $23,000 it allegedly overpaid in settlement proceeds.

The bursting of Ameren’s Taum Sauk reservoir in 2005 left a swath of destruction. A federal judge last week dismissed the utility’s lawsuit against an insurance company over covering the costs of cleanup.