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Target attorney Melisa Franzen to challenge GOP Sen. Geoff Michel (access required)

BY: Briana Bierschbach
POSTED: February 8, 2012

Melisa Lopez Franzen

Franzen announced her bid for the seat on Tuesday, just hours before precinct caucuses kick off across the state. Franzen plans to seek the DFL endorsement for the Senate District 41 seat on Tuesday evening and has no known challengers.


Takings comp based on lost revenue OK, court rules (access required)

BY: Jay Donald Jerde
POSTED: February 3, 2012

Harold LeVander Jr.

Fair market value doesn’t enter into the damage equation when a municipality acquires by condemnation public utility property.


County prevails in civil rights case (access required)

BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: February 3, 2012

A child protection proceeding against a Plymouth couple may have been “on some level unjust,” but there was no proof it was “anything more than a single and isolated incident of what may have been zealous prosecution and overstatement of facts, rather than a policy or custom of such conduct.”


Silence after arrest admissible, appeals court rules (access required)

BY: Adam Kamp
POSTED: February 3, 2012

Edwin Butterfoss

An arrestee’s silence in response to statements made after the arrest but before receiving Miranda warnings may be admissible, the Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 30 in State v. Johnson.


Creating a strategic plan for your law firm (access required)

BY: Sylvia Hsieh
POSTED: February 3, 2012

When he found his law firm revisiting the same questions year after year — Are we going to hire a new associate? Do we need additional office space? Which practice areas are growing? Which are shrinking? — Robert A. Young decided to embark on creating a strategic plan for his firm.


Bail bondsman proposal revived in Wisconsin (access required)

BY: Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: February 3, 2012

A pending legislative proposal to revive a state-run bail bonds system could impede the progress of two counties’ new pretrial screening programs based on risk evaluation.


Another defense win in Levaquin MDL (access required)

BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: February 3, 2012

David Cialkowski, plaintiff’s attorney

Once again, the bell has tolled for the defense in a Levaquin bellwether trial.


No relief for disqualified nurse (access required)

BY: Jane F. Pribek
POSTED: February 3, 2012

One night’s intoxicated public grope means that a Rockford man cannot continue his career as a children’s surgical nurse — a field he has worked in for 16 years and where he was in “exceptional standing” with his employer, Minneapolis Children’s Hospital.


Minnesota Supreme Court oral arguments calendar (access required)

BY: Minnesota Lawyer Staff
POSTED: February 3, 2012

The following summaries of upcoming Supreme Court arguments for February, 2012 were prepared from information provided by the Supreme Court Commissioner’s Office.


Winthrop add six lawyers, IP practice (access required)

BY: Minnesota Lawyer Staff
POSTED: February 3, 2012

Winthrop & Weinstine is expanding its IP practice in a big way with the addition of six former Dorsey & Whitney lawyers.


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