Minnesota Lawyer

By jettisoning a few, folding several together and creating some new ones, the DFL-led House will end up with a net four fewer legislative committees in 2021 than were convened last biennium.

A judge has ordered the closure of a Plainview fitness center that defied Gov. Tim Walz’s latest COVID-19 order to shut down public accommodations, including gyms.

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

The Minnesota Judicial Branch will soon put its newly christened Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO) interface through internal user tests, looking for any bugs before the project heads into next month’s semi-public pilot test.

A judge Tuesday was weighing whether to issue a temporary restraining order against a Plainview fitness center, which refused to close despite the governor’s COVID-19 shutdown order.

A GOP group’s lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to consider throwing out 2020’s election results is moot, unreasonably delayed and could erase nearly 2 million Minnesotans’ votes, respondents told the court Monday.

Sen. Jeff Hayden, the outgoing District 62 state senator, announced on Twitter that he would be joining Fredrikson & Byron’s government relations team.

The 57-year-old Rush City prison inmate died late Saturday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul, according to Department of Corrections.

Though he is still making the move from Worthington to the Twin Cities, new state Supreme Court Justice Gordon Moore is adapting to his new surroundings.

Besides shuffling chairs to accommodate newly independent senators Tom Bakk and David Tomassoni, the upper chamber expanded by nine the number of committees and subcommittees it will assemble.