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

Missouri law allows foreclosure purchasers to sue to evict people from homes they used to own, but it also bars those people from presenting in court any evidence that the foreclosure sale was void and that the bank doesn’t have the right to the title.

A Pacific couple, William and Susan Smith, challenged the constitutionality of the unlawful detainer law, which bars questions concerning the validity of title. But on Tuesday the Missouri Supreme Court, in a 6-1 decision, said the law is constitutional.

The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down a hard-fought legislative effort to encourage life sciences research.

Firefighters are afraid of losing their pensions, St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson testified Monday morning at the start of a trial over the city’s right to overhaul the firefighters’ pension system.

The family of a man who died while working on a new Mississippi River bridge is asking for $10 million in punitive damages after getting a federal judge’s go-ahead for a state court lawsuit.

A St. Louis County judge threw out a case against radio talk show host Charles W. Brennan, who received a ticket when a camera in Moline Acres recorded his car speeding on Highway 367.

What is the duty of the trustee in a foreclosure action? That question, coming from Judge Robert Dowd, is the crux of the matter before the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District in Sparks v. Millsap & Singer.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis R. Dow was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy last week in Washington, D.C.

Maurice B. Graham, president of the St. Louis plaintiff litigation law firm Gray, Ritter & Graham, has been appointed as a member of the Lawyers Committee for the National Center for State Courts.

The law firm of Danna McKitrick has announced Matthew R. Fields as its newest principal.

David Groce has joined HeplerBroom as a partner in the firm’s St. Louis office, where he will continue advising businesses on corporate, transactional, organizational and operational matters.

Commissioner Michael W. Noble is getting a new job. Gov. Jay Nixon on Wednesday appointed Noble to be an associate circuit judge in the city of St. Louis.