Minnesota Lawyer

All of the states adjoining Minnesota except South Dakota prohibit capital punishment.

Mick Jagger, and his longtime travelers, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and the inestimable Keith Richards, make waves in jurisprudence in addition to the sound waves emanating from the stage.

Ford v. Minneapolis Public Schools is part of a stream of suits addressing procedural issues under silent workplace-related statutes.

The Baker litigation has been the focus of considerable attention as the high court ponders marriage equality litigation.

Justice Marshall--a stalwart in the liberal branch of the court--made his main Minnesota marks in his dissenting decisions.

Furnishing instructions to jurors does not necessarily presage the end of a case.

A pair of recent decisions by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and its Minnesota counterpart, decided within a 24-hour span, refused to consider the merits of religion-related disputes.

Minnesota, where the law has been in effect since 1994, is one of more than 30 states that recognizes anti-SLAPP litigation, most by statutes and a few by common law.

“[W]hen you go into an attorney’s office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last” —Anthony Trollope (1850)

While the focus will be on the justices in the nation’s capitol, the circuitous route that the law concerning same-sex marriage has followed is traceable to Minnesota.