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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2008
While you may think you had a bad morning with a slow snow-covered commute, it could be worse. You could be the governor of Illinois. As has been widely reported, Governor Rod Blagojevich was taken into custudy by federal agents at 6:15 this morning. (They reportedly gave him time to dress.) Blagojevich, of course, has no [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2008
Larry Craig’s shenanigans seem so pre-election now, but the Court of Appeals hasn’t forgotten him. You surely haven’t forgotten that Craig pled guilty to disorderly conduct after allegedly propositioning an undercover police officer in an airport restroom, and then sought to withdraw the plea after the news leaked out. The appellate court upheld Craig’s guilty plea [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2008
The Star Tribune’s biting article on the 97-year-old fruitcake got me wondering whether there have been any appellate cases in Minnesota regarding the much maligned holiday confection. A quick search of the courts’ online case archivive (which stretches back 12 years) revealed that there were no appellate decisions during that period containing the words “fruit [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2008
The following is the full text of my editor’s column from Minnesota Lawyer, which we are making available to our blog readers as a special blog extra. ‘Tis the season for pro bono We are reaching that time of year again when it’s nice to throw off the coat and scarf, curl up by the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2008
With the specter of a $5.2 billion deficit (and the inevitable cuts that will follow) sending shivers through state offices throughout Minnesota, the judiciary is no exception. On the heels of the announcement of just how sizeable the projected budget hole is, the judiciary quickly sent out a response. The following statement is from Minnesota [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2008
The American Bar Association has made its last call for entries into its video/essay competition on gender diversity. The deadline for submissions to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession 20th anniversary video/essay contest is Dec. 31, noon, Central Standard Time. Entries must be based on the theme “Gender Diversity: Have We Solved the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2008
My brother Jeffrey, a Medievalist who chairs the English Department at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is a co-author of his own blog. Since that blog, “In the Middle,” specializes in Medieval literature, I rarely have occasion to mention it here. However, recently he posted an interesting tidbit that I thought might be of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2008
Demonstrators gathered outside the Minneapolis Club where Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner was holding a campaign fundraiser for her run for Governor of Minnesota on Tuesday evening. Protesters are demanding that Gaertner drop 18 felony cases stemming from the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul last September, stating that the charges are political, with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2008
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