Minnesota Lawyer

Expressly stated or implied, an employee’s job duties include showing up at work. The failure to do so, whether due to tardiness or absenteeism, can be detrimental, even fatal, to the employer’s likelihood of success.

The U.S. Supreme Court this spring established a new standard for assessing the many guilty pleas that permeate the criminal justice system.

The intense interest generated by the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election will come to a head June 5 when voters decide whether to retain the incumbent governor, Scott Walker. The next-door recall of the governor and lieutenant governor as well calls attention to the law of removing elected officials in Minnesota.

The right to be represented by attorney is not inviolate. A pair of concurrent rulings by the Minnesota Court of Appeals addressed the issue of availability of counsel. In both cases, the appellate court rejected the right to counsel.

As students in Minnesota rebound from spring break to wrap up the school year, they encountered a pair of adverse determinations by the Minnesota Court of Appeals concerning their eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits.

To commemorate the beginning of the 2012 baseball season, here is a look at the most recent ruling and other noteworthy baseball cases in Minnesota jurisprudence.

One restaurant manager who quit his job suffered multiple losses. After resigning to take another job, the new position fell through, leaving the ex-manager without any position. Then, to make matters worse, he was denied unemployment compensation benefits, too, as a quitter.

The use of alternative dispute resolution has been increasing for some time. Whether a legal dispute will be channeled through that process sometimes depends, in the first instance, upon a judicial determination that the matter is arbitrable.

The extra day is welcomed by lawyers because it gives them an additional day to bill their time. It further gives presidential candidates one more day to campaign. It also means another day to litigate, whether cases involve leap year or not. Here’s a look at some of the legal lore about leap year.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals concurrently decided a pair of duals regarding deportation of immigrants arising out of criminal proceedings near the end of last year.