Minnesota Lawyer

Two drinking-and-dining establishment were sued Thursday for violating the governor’s emergency executive orders.

Myon Burrell was not the only applicant to walk away happy from the state Board of Pardons meeting on Dec. 15. Of 21 requests for pardons or commutations heard by the three-member panel, only six were denied outright.

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.