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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 10, 2008
As has been reported elsewhere, the recount of the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken is only the second recount of statewide election results in Minnesota since the 1962 gubernatorial race. The other recount was, of course, just a couple of months ago — and that came in a judicial election. As loyal [...] |
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BY: admin
POSTED: November 7, 2008
The Minnesota Lawyer website has posted its judicial election wrap up story. Click here to see it. All-in-all the election went pretty smoothly. Unlike the primary, there were no recounts necessary — which is probably for the best given that the Secretary of State's Office is pretty busy with that whole Coleman/Franken recount thing. It's [...] |
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BY: Michelle Lore
POSTED: November 7, 2008
The Minnesota Court of Appeals celebrated its 25th anniversary yesterday. At an all-day symposium commemorating the event — held at William Mitchell College of Law — Judge Harriet Lansing (at right) gave a really nice lunchtime address, aptly titled “The Minnesota Court of Appeals: Twenty-five years of Doing Minnesota Justice.” Lansing explained that there was [...] |
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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 3, 2008
Thank you to the thousands of dedicated voters who found and used Minnesota Lawyer's online judicial election guide, our website and this blog to get information about the 2008 judicial elections. I was heartened to see how many folks out there want to cast a meaningful ballot in the judicial races and availed themselves of [...] |
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BY: admin
POSTED: November 2, 2008
Minnesota Lawyer furnishes video clips of Gail Chang Bohr and Howard Orenstein, the two candidates running for an open seat in Ramsey County. |
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BY: Michelle Lore
POSTED: October 31, 2008
I’ve always loved Halloween. I love to decorate my house with Halloween items, put pumpkins out on my doorstep, hang “Happy Halloween” signs on my doors and go to at least one super scary movie. As my co-workers will attest, I even like to put out Halloween stuff on at my desk at work — [...] |
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BY: admin
POSTED: October 29, 2008
Judicial elections are in the air. Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson and his challenger, Tim Tingelstad, were featured this morning in an MPR news report profiling their race. Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea and Hennepin District Court Justice Deborah Hedlund will both be guests on an MPR program today at 11:00 a.m. (See post below). [...] |
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: October 28, 2008
As we enter the home stretch of the judicial elections, a controversy that may influence the 2010 judicial elections is shaping up. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Montgomery heard cross-motions for summary judgment last week in the case Gregory Wersal v. Patrick Sexton, chair of the Minnesota Board of Judicial Standards, et al. Wersal challenges [...] |
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BY: admin
POSTED: October 27, 2008
I think the future of our country is in good hands if the student body at the University of St. Catherine is any indication. As the Star Tribune reports, a group of students at the all-female Catholic School in St. Paul is taking the administration to task for its well-meaning, but ultimately wrongheaded policy in [...] |
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BY: admin
POSTED: October 27, 2008
With the judicial elections a week from tomorrow, I thought I'd check in with former Minnesota State Bar Association president David Stowman, who oversees the MSBA committee overseeing judicial campaign conduct. Stowman confirmed my suspicion that things have been relatively quite and the candidates for the most part have steered away from politicizing their races. [...] |
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