Minnesota Lawyer

COVID-19 trends are headed in the wrong direction, so there will be no changes to the state’s in-person civil jury trial ban, the state Judicial Council has decided.

If passed, the bills would limit pretextual traffic stops as a means of cutting down on dangerous police encounters and eliminate qualified immunity.

Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, prosecutors said.

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

The GOP-led Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee approved a skinnier budget package than the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform committee passed.

Following the slaying in Brooklyn Center of another Black man in police custody Sunday, Democratic lawmakers of color are demanding tough new police-accountability laws that, in 2021, the GOP-led Senate has held at bay.

The Minnesota Legal Services Coalition has received $3.5 million in federal CARES Act money through the state of Minnesota and will use it to finance its new Reach Justice Minnesota initiative, the group announced on April 7.

Charles Webber, a commercial trial and appellate lawyer and partner at Faegre Drinker, has been tapped as Judge Rex D. Stacey’s replacement on the 1st Judicial District Court bench.

The Senate Judiciary committee on Thursday unanimously adopted a major amendment to its budget omnibus judiciary/public safety bill that, among other things, closes that so-called “intoxication loophole” exposed by the Khalil decision.

The Commission on Judicial Selection has recommended three finalists for a spot on the Hennepin County District Court bench, which is opening with the retirement of Judge Thomas S. Fraser.