Minnesota Lawyer

The University of Minnesota School of Law is honoring one of its most distinguished alumni, both in physical space and online.

A start date for the joint House-Senate judiciary and public safety committee hearing has finally been set. It begins Monday, May 3, at 9 a.m.

The state Senate has backed away from holding committee hearings on police accountability reforms, but the state’s Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board, it turns out, has not.

Both sides declared victory following a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that affirms the Court of Appeals’ rejection of PolyMet Mining’s permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes.

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

Two state government committees each passed omnibus finance bills that have lawyerly provisions.

In another setback for those hoping the courts will force Gov. Tim Walz to stop issuing emergency executive orders, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a group of small businesses and GOP lawmakers have failed to make their case.

Gov. Tim Walz has been given yet another batch of finalists to fill the seat of a retiring District Court judge.

In a lawsuit that pitted the governor against the state’s attorney general and Supreme Court chief justice, a Ramsey County District Court judge has ruled two state statutes unconstitutional because they require unanimous clemency votes by the Minnesota Board of Pardons.

That’s “several”—as in “separated.” That it is how the Minnesota Supreme Court, with an assist from Black’s Law Dictionary, decided Wednesday that the word “several” needs to be interpreted, at least as it relates to Minn. Stat. § 542.10.