Minnesota Lawyer

Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.

Staying a federal judge’s injunction pending appeal, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has relegated DFL candidates to last place on the general-election ballot, at least among their major-party rivals.

In a reversal of long-standing precedent, the state Supreme Court has ruled that a vicarious-liability claim against Allina Health System over the actions of two subcontracting ER doctors can proceed.

A national “vision paper” co-authored and signed by Ramsey County Attorney John Choi lays out a new model for the “modern prosecutor.”

A new rule has been adopted that reflects a statutory repeal, which handed authority over precedential Court of Appeals opinions back to the courts.

Two minimum security prisons — at Togo and Willow River — will close because of an anticipated $14 million shortfall in the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ current budget.

In this second of a two-part interview, retiring state Supreme Court Justice David Lillehaug tells Minnesota Lawyer about his time on the bench, his legacy and what he plans to do next.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has blocked a trial judge’s order that would’ve forced an alleged sex-assault victim to hand her cellphone over to the defendant’s forensics expert.

Classes at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law will be an online-only this fall, the school’s dean says.

Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office has settled four of five eviction actions filed since the governor declared a peacetime emergency on March 13.