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

Plaintiff and lawyer in landmark student rights case visit UMKC

John Tinker, left, and Dan Johnston, standing right, talk to UMKC law students on Tuesday evening. Tinker was the plaintiff, and Johnston his lawyer, in one of the major student civil rights cases of the 20th century, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, decided in 1969.

Tagged with: Dan Johnston freedom of speech John Tinker school Tinker

Lawyers in the Western District have selected Kansas City attorney J.R. Hobbs (pictured) for a position on the Appellate Judicial Commission. In results finalized Saturday, the St. Louis and Jackson County circuit courts also announced new attorney members. Steven L. Groves will join the commission for 22nd Circuit. Scott Bethune was elected to the judicial commission that selects nominees for vacancies in the 16th Circuit. Meanwhile, attorneys Richard Wuestling IV and Matthew Rossiter will be facing off in a runoff election for a position on the St. Louis County Circuit Judicial Commission.

Tagged with: Appellate Judicial Commission J.R. Hobbs Matthew Rossiter Richard Wuestling IV Scott Bethune Steven L. Groves

Several justices of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed a reluctance to strike down sentences of life without parole for juveniles as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual Monday. At oral arguments in two cases arising from Florida, where the vast majority of ...

Tagged with: Juvenile

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed decisions in Kansas City and St. Louis to deny immunity to police officers facing lawsuits over alleged excessive force. In the Kansas City case, Wilson Smith alleged that he answered the door ...

Tagged with: 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals immunity

Personal injury firm Brown & Crouppen is mulling a move to Metropolitan Square in downtown St. Louis. Managing partner Ron Brown confirmed the law firm is close to a deal on space at Met Square and said it could be announced this week.

Pictured is Ed Herman, Terry Crouppen and Andy Crouppen re-enacting their firm's infamous “barging through the door” commercial with the plaques from the Missouri's Best contest raised high. The annual event by Missouri Lawyers Media was held Friday at The Four Seasons in downtown St. Louis. Click here for a list of winners.

Tagged with: Brown & Crouppen

A Kansas City law firm accused of legal malpractice with which a state appellate court in St. Louis already sided could return to Jackson County on a related dispute. The dispute is so related that the defendant’s attorney says the ...

Tagged with: Foland Wickens Eisfelder Roper & Hofer Laurie Tobin Legal malpractice

The St. Charles County Ambulance District is one of two public entities being sued for allegedly violating a Missouri law that prohibits union-only project labor agreements. The Heart of America Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors and St. Louis-based ...

Tagged with: St. Charles County Ambulance District union

The family of a woman who allegedly died due to carbon monoxide poisoning has settled with the apartment complex they maintained caused the leak. Defense attorney Jon R. Sanner, of Brinker & Doyen, confirmed that the parties had settled confidentially ...

Tagged with: carbon monoxide Dorothy Arnold Glasgow Garden Apartments Jon R. Sanner wrongful death

When the legislative session begins in January, lawmakers may want to fix the state law that allows property owners to set up community improvement districts.

Senior U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber declared part of that law unconstitutional this week because it imposes fewer restrictions on a certain class of voters - those who own property in the community improvement district but don't live there. The case before Webber involved the Robinwood West Community Improvement District (subdivision pictured), which is in west St. Louis County.

Tagged with: community improvement districts E. Richard Webber Robinwood West Community Improvement District unconstitutional

A St. Louis judge who challenged his red-light camera ticket lost an effort to have the case against him thrown out. Circuit Judge Robert Dierker, like many in St. Louis City, got a ticket indicating he’d run a red-light. But ...

Tagged with: red-light cameras Robert Dierker

Prosecutors, judges consider changes to state statutes, procedures

Kevin Kelly, a municipal judge in Richmond Heights and a defense lawyer for people accused of drunken driving, speaks on Wednesday at a summit on Missouri's DWI laws in Jefferson City.

Gov. Jay Nixon renewed his commitment to revamping the state's driving while intoxicated statutes. But the first-term governor said that finding common ground on the substance of those changes wouldn't be a simple task.

Tagged with: DWI Jay Nixon