Minnesota Lawyer

A biweekly roundup of topics of interest to Minnesota’s legal community.

Minnesota public defenders are quitting their jobs at record rates, causing extreme workloads and resulting in unconscionable results for clients, public defenders say.

Federal and Minnesota agencies are expressing concern over a psychoactive substance derived indirectly from hemp known as delta-8 THC.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has found that a defendant’s Confrontation Clause rights were not violated when a district court allowed a law enforcement agent who had been exposed to COVID-19 to testify using two-way, live, remote video technology.

The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Hennepin County Court against two companies that held themselves out as pop-up COVID-19 testing facilities but allegedly violated consumer-protection laws.

A conservative group says the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has gone too far by supporting the proposed Page Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution.

The Minnesota Supreme Court recently explained why pardons can be issued only when the Board of Pardons is unanimous and cannot be conferred unilaterally by the state’s governor.

A biweekly roundup of topics of interest to Minnesota’s legal community.

A conservative advocacy group accused the state of rationing lifesaving medicine based on race. Quietly, the department changed its policy.

A Minnesota man’s driver’s license remains suspended after a precedential Minnesota Court of Appeals decision.