Minnesota Lawyer

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

The Commission on Judicial Selection on Nov. 16 announced three vacancies on two courts.

A neurosurgeon who sued the Mayo Clinic and his former supervisor for job discrimination has been told by a second judge that he can’t change the story he told in a deposition.

Gov. Tim Walz said Monday that he plans to call a seventh special session in early December, this time to push a COVID-19 small-business relief package.

Aalok Sharma, a Minneapolis associate at the Stinson L.L.P. law firm, has been named chair of the American Bar Association’s Sports Division Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.

Minnesota U.S. District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz has been named chair of the federal courts’ Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence.

One of the biggest obstacles to justice reform, Gov. Tim Walz said last week, is the inability of too many Minnesotans to understand that late May’s civil disorder didn’t start with someone carrying lighter fluid and a match.

A state representative has petitioned in Ramsey County court to make sure that 318 absentee ballots, which somehow got mislaid on Oct. 31, get counted.

The Minnesota Judicial Council has imposed a new 60-day pause on almost all in-person criminal jury trials, effective until Feb. 1.

A Plymouth woman has filed a federal civil rights suit against the city of Minneapolis and two police officers after she allegedly was pulled out of her car during the upheaval following George Floyd’s death.