Minnesota Lawyer

In the Hopper is a summary of Minnesota legislation of interest to the legal community.

In what likely was a symbolic gesture Monday, the Minnesota Senate voted to place power to end governors’ peacetime emergency powers in lawmakers’ hands.

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

An Anoka lawyer who pleaded guilty to felony third-degree sexual misconduct last year is now being brought up for discipline by the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility.

A 7th Judicial District Court judge has been publicly reprimanded for publicly touting President Donald Trump’s 2020 candidacy while blasting his opponent, Joe Biden, as a “dipshit.”

On March 8 and March 10, the AG’s office announced settlements with two businesses that it took to court for violating the governor’s COVID-19 emergency executive orders.

A bill that stiffens sentences for grievous attacks on police, judges, prosecutors and corrections officers was unanimously approved Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary committee.

A District Court judge did not err in finding that Freeborn County commissioners arbitrarily set their sheriff’s salary $16,000 below what he requested, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

With the first bill deadline approaching on Friday, there is a mad scramble for the legislative chambers to pass bills.

Redistricting, it seems, is in Peter Wattson’s blood. As he has been many times over the years, he is in the thick of it yet again — this time, for the first time, as a plaintiff.