Minnesota Lawyer

Minnesotans’ mailed absentee ballots must arrive by Election Day or they likely will not count. That is the 2-1 ruling of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which arrived late Thursday.

Thirty residents displaced by a Rochester redevelopment project will receive, on average, $5,000 in a settlement approved last week in Minnesota’s U.S. District Court.

A foreign national arriving in the United States illegally, but later attaining temporary protected status, is considered to be legally admitted, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

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

The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered the Dakota County’s sheriff to issue a gun permit, after finding that the crime a Lakeville man committed 22 years ago no longer renders him ineligible.

The Dorsey & Whitney law firm has reinstated staff pay after pandemic-related cuts earlier this year. The firm announced on Oct. 16 that it would restore employees’ slashed salaries for the rest of the year.

The Supreme Court referee who heard lawyer Michelle MacDonald’s disciplinary case recommends a lighter penalty than the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board requests.

Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office has the signed assurance of a Tennessee security firm that it will not recruit hired guns to man Minnesota polling places.

The marquee judicial race this year is the state Supreme Court contest between Justice Paul Thissen and challenger Michelle MacDonald. Minnesota Lawyer asked both candidates to fill out an identical six-question survey to sound them out on issues of importance to the judiciary.

Mitchell Hamline Dean Anthony Niedwiecki informed students on Oct. 19 that the public health situation has not changed appreciably since late July when the decision was made to teach remotely.