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Let the case of Frodo Baggins, et al. v. New Line Cinema begin! In case you haven’t heard, the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien is suing the movie studio that made the three blockbuster films based on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Apparently Tolkien’s heirs believe the film company did not deliver their full share [...]

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By all accounts, that was a stunning jury verdict in Hennepin County yesterday. In case you missed it, a Hennepin County jury awarded a group of 115 Twin Cities dentists $130.6 million in their suit against Massachusetts-based American Dental Partners Inc. That’s right, 130.6 million. Holy molars! According to the story in today’s Star Tribune, [...]

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Editor’s Note: Minnesota Lawyer received the following press release yesterday from the Minneapolis law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben.Today the Minneapolis law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben representing several families of persons who died in the I35 bridge collapse, and numerous injured victims, filed a Motion to Compel Mn/DOT to release documents in [...]

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State Senator Ron Latz said in a press release yesterday that the Joint House/Senate Subcommittee on Claims has been studying the state’s responsibility to victims of the I-35W bridge collapse and will hold hearings to analyze options available to the state of Minnesota. “We have been gathering information about the potential scope of claims, about [...]

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Bikes – and the rights of their owners versus those of car owners – just seems to becoming a more and more prominent topic of discussion. This month’s Mpls./St. Paul has an interesting article delving into the many spokes of Twin Cities bike culture. And as Minnesota Lawyer editor Mark Cohen wrote a couple weeks [...]

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This lawsuit should sound a little familiar to any Minnesotan who roots for the Twins: Seattle city officials filed a lawsuit today to keep the SuperSonics from leaving town, the Associated Press Reports. The lawsuit filed was a counter move to a the basketball team’s attempt to be released from their lease on KeyArena. According [...]

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Is it just me, or have their been a lot more newspaper stories this year on bicyclists being hurt? Maybe I am just hypersensitive to the issue since I like to ride my bike to work on nice summer days. However, just recently we’ve had: – the 30-year-old bicyclist killed in the intersection near Lake [...]

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Schwebel Goetz & Sieben has become the first law firm to make a court filing pertaining to the 35W bridge disaster. The Minneapolis firm — which has a well-known practice in the personal-injury and wrongful death areas — has filed a petition in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis seeking access for two experts it wants [...]

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The Star Tribune has an interesting story today on the liability questions and potential lawsuits arising out of the collapse of the 35W bridge. (See “Question of liability rises.”) Given the limitations on state and municipal liability and the fact that the bridge was constructed 40 years ago, attorneys pursuing liability claims will likely have [...]

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I spotted this interesting item about a Boston lawyer in our sister publication, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. A Boston attorney has been cleared of all criminal wrongdoing after he had been accused of forcing open the jacket of a woman and exposing her bra during the December 2006 opening of the new Institute of Contemporary Art [...]

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