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This just in from the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist & Vennum: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the extent of tribal court jurisdiction over non-tribal members. Paul A. Banker and Robert V. Atmore of Lindquist & Vennum PLLP, who petitioned the high court on behalf of their client, Plains [...]

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Minneapolis attorney Mary Vasaly recently returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., where she had a chance to hear from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on appellate advocacy. At today’s Minnesota CLE Appellate Practice Institute, she passed along two nuggets of advice Alito shared. The first was that amicus briefs shouldn’t repeat the arguments [...]

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Local attorney Kathleen Flynn Peterson garnered a mention on DC Dicta, the national blog of our sister publication, Lawyer USA. Peterson, as president of the American Association for Justice, provides a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Stoneridge decision. (See “U.S. Supreme Court turns back 10(b) action” on this blog.) Believe it or not, [...]

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The Lawyers USA blog (Dicta) has an interesting piece today previewing the oral arguments on an interesting death-penalty case that the U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to hear today. The case calls into question Kentucky’s use of lethal injection, with defense lawyers claiming it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. The defense lawyers are making the [...]

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“There’s not much that entices about the job. There’s no money in it, no privacy, no big houses, and from an ego standpoint, it does nothing for me.” – Justice Clarence Thomas on serving on the U.S. Supreme Court (from the WSJ Law Blog)

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The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in a closely watched employment law case. The high court has been asked to decide whether a plaintiff suing for employment discrimination can introduce so called “me too” evidence. (Click here for more.) DC Dicta — a blog run by our national sister publication, Lawyers USA [...]

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The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a challenge to a California county’s practice of routinely searching welfare applicants’ homes without warrants.

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One of the interesting moments of Justice Clarence Thomas’ interview on “6o Minutes” last night (see post below for more on the interview) came when the justice talked about the difficulty he had finding a job after receiving his J.D. in 1974. Despite having gone to an ivy-league law school (Yale), Thomas could not find [...]

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Much has been said of the silence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the bench. Last term he did not utter a word during oral arguments (see “Ever-taciturn Thomas is in a quiet spell.”) So I was eager to see what the quiet justice would say when given the chance on an exclusive [...]

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I have spent the last 2.5 days at Minnesota CLE’s Criminal Law Institute, picking up a bevvy of CLE credits and seeing what’s new in the criminal law area. From this morning’s lecture on the U.S. Supreme Court, here are just a few interesting tidbits: – The high court decided 68 cases this term — [...]

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