Minnesota Lawyer

Two more Minnesota prison inmates have died from COVID-19, making a total of eight since the pandemic began.

A Zimmerman man’s felony sexual misconduct conviction has been reversed and he must be retried, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled.

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

The Legislature’s Select Committee on Racial Justice will present its findings and recommendations to other lawmakers on Thursday.

Despite plenty of sound and fury Monday, only 17 lawmakers voted against a bill to provide $216 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses impaired by the governor’s Nov. 20 executive order.

Spearheaded by former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz in December 2000, the initiative has the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Judicial Branch working together with stakeholders to help kids in all 87 counties.

Minnesota high schoolers who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 can file for federal pandemic unemployment benefits, the state Court of Appeals has ruled, reversing an unemployment law judge’s Aug. 27 holding.

Get me a rewrite, a federal judge told Insignia Systems, Inc., and this time include some original material.

It is time to set Myon Burrell free, says an independent national panel that investigated the conviction and imprisonment of the teen said to have killed 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards almost two decades ago.

Snags remain, but legislative leaders Thursday sounded optimistic that some form of compromise COVID-19 relief will be agreed to and passed at the Capitol on Monday.