The spurning of a potential contractor led the way to a much bigger dispute over how much access that contractor should have to data from a public employer’s records of the hiring process.
Read More »Legal fight between ad companies ends in a tie
A dispute between colleagues-turned-competitors from the company that puts color advertisements on the back of your grocery store receipts was recently heard by the U.S. District Court in Minnesota.
Read More »COVID law in the workplace
As it rounds the bend to its one-year anniversary as a worldwide pandemic, COVID-19 still has attorneys scrambling on a number of fronts — not the least of which is employment law.
Read More »2020 Diversity & Inclusion: Judge Richelle Wahi
Richelle Wahi has been a highly regarded judge in Minnesota’s First Judicial District for four years. But what people who appear in her court might not know is that she’s hearing-disabled.
Read More »Petters Ponzi scheme saga claws on
At least some of the 280 "claw-back" claims stemming from Tom Petters' $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme will continue being litigated, according to a recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read More »One rap, one conviction: Court sends back drug decision
In a recent unpublished opinion, the Minnesota Court of Appeals partly reversed a multiple conviction that arose from a single arrest.
Read More »Restraining order is faulty without specific address to avoid
A Court of Appeals decision said the state must prove a defendant knows where a protected person lives if it wants to prove violation of a harassment restraining order as being within a certain distance of that person's residence.
Read More »‘Lake Calhoun’ is no more
Switch to Bde Maka Ska will stay, high court rules.
Read More »Repeat drunk driver had ‘depraved mind’
Appeals court upholds murder conviction in snowmobile death.
Read More »Court overturns termination of parental rights
Child, attorney were not at hearing determining his fate.
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