Minnesota Lawyer

A dispute over wage theft and withheld sick time — and the repercussions from public comments made about those subjects — might be on its way to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed a conviction, saying that to prove guilt of second-degree burglary, the state must prove that the burglar had a tool for the purpose of gaining access to money or property.

The jail sentence for a defendant in the Starkey Laboratories fraud case will remain intact, thanks to a recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

No previous Minnesota governor has had to exercise emergency powers as much as Gov. Tim Walz during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the complication behind doing so was that there was no equivalent legal history to lead the way.

When the coronavirus started spreading a year ago, it came with a byproduct that not many expected: the indignant refusal by some to wear a mask, a simple measure that health experts said would stop the virus from spreading.

Election Day 2020 was one of the most closely watched political events of this generation — and most hotly disputed.

In a shameful chapter of Minnesota history, a Black man named Max Mason was wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman in 1920.

Much of the legal process revolves around face-to-face meetings, whether in an office, chambers or courtroom. As with so many others, that custom was put on hold in 2020, but a team of court staff made sure the system would keep going remotely.

COVID-19 caused a lot of carefully made plans to be scrapped. One of those was David Lillehaug’s plan to do some retirement traveling with his wife.

Tom Nelson took over the presidency of the Minnesota State Bar Association in mid-2019, little knowing that the state’s legal community was in for one of its most dynamic years in recent memory.