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While the recount judge’s panel is counting up, Minnesota Vikings fans are counting down — down, they hope, to zero, as in the number of tickets left for Sunday’s playoff game against Philadelphia. About 11,000 tickets to the game remain unsold, meaning that the game could be blacked out in most of Minnesota if the [...]

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As a special extra for our blog readers, I am making my holiday-themed editor’s column from Minnesota Lawyer available. Hey, it beats a fruitcake, doesn’t it? Then again, maybe not ….  The column speculates what might happen if Santa took a crack at helping Minnesota to resolve the ongoing Senate seat jockeying between the forces [...]

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Here’s some potentially scary news for attorneys. Almost a third of U.S. lawyers expect their employers will implement layoffs in 2009, according to a survey conducted by the American Bar Association Journal last month.
More than 14,300 attorneys nationwide responded to the survey, which found that 31 percent of lawyers expect that by the end of next [...]

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The Minnesota Supreme Court’s ruling on the absentee-ballot issue takes Minnesota nice to a new extreme. Rejected absentee ballots will be counted only if the county canvassing boards and both candidates all agree that the ballot was wrongfully rejected.
Now I may be going way out on a limb here, but in an election where a [...]

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I couldn’t help chuckling when I saw the recent changes the Minnesota Supreme Court made to the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure. (Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear said that often.) Under the section on diagrams and demonstrative aids, the court deleted the following sentence: “The plat or diagram may be be drawn on [...]

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