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Minnesota’s seven Supreme Court justices rubbed elbows with college students in Brainerd on Tuesday.

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During Minnesota CLE’s Criminal Justice Institute in St. Paul today, Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea warned that “our already overburdened justice system” will “begin to break down” if it is stretched any further by funding reductions.

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There’s an interesting article in the PiPress today involving the judicial race between Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea and her challenger, Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund. According to the press report, the owner of a sign-making company sent Hedlund an e-mail with the subject line, “Can Muslims Be Good Americans?” The [...]

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Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund’s statement on her Facebook page that her opponent, Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea, has canceled debate appearances with her six times is itself debatable, according to Gildea’s campaign.
As we blogged before, Hedlund has an entry on her Facebook page asserting that Gildea is “trying to get [her] opponent to [...]

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As we continue with our video election coverage of the state appellate court races, we present Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund, who is challenging Judge Lorie Skjerven Gildea for her seat on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Hedlund has spent the last 28 years on the trial court bench. Prior to being a judge, [...]

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A lot has been written about the use of social-networking sites by lawyers. Now it has even permeated into the arena of judicial elections.
Both Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea (right) and her opponent in the upcoming election, Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund (left), have entries on the Facebook networking site for [...]

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Golden Valley Jill Clark in an open letter to Minnesota Lawyer has congratulated Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund on her primary victory and appears to have thrown her support to Hedlund by commenting, “Think it doesn’t matter whether the district bench is represented on the appellate courts? Think again.” She has also challenged [...]

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Minneapolis attorney and judicial candidate Jill Clark has lost her last-ditch bid for federal relief in her effort to remove the name of her opponent, Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea, from the primary ballot, or, in the alternative, to prevent Gildea from being identified an an incumbent.
A special panel appointed for the purpose of hearing Clark’s [...]

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The Minnesota Supreme Court has issued a 35-page per curiam opinion in the case of Clark v. Pawlenty, Jill Clark’s challenge to the election procedures governing the upcoming Supreme Court race. Clark is challenging incumbent Lorie Gildea, along with Hennepin County District Court Judge Deborah Hedlund and attorney Richard Gallo.
The court –actually a specially [...]

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Supreme Court candidate Jill Clark has served an Application to Circuit Justice for Injunction Preventing Unconstitutional Text on Election Ballot for Minnesota Supreme Court Pending Review by Supreme Court of the United States and presumably forwarded the same to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the circuit justice for the Eighth U.S. Circuit. She is [...]

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