Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently passed upon a pair of concurrent cases involving claims for attorney fee sanctions.

A dozen decisions grace this unofficial list of the top cases of 2012.

A recent ruling of the Minnesota Court of Appeals involving a quitting employee is notable for several unusual features. It held that an employee who resigned was eligible for benefits despite not attempting to mitigate the problem that caused her to quit.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals recently passed upon a pair of hostile work environment cases that shared some similarities.

Lockouts are in vogue these days. In labor management relations, a “lockout” occurs when management bars employees from working following expiration of a collective bargaining agreement. It usually results in some downtime, followed by negotiation and implementation of a new labor agreement.

A pair of recent rulings of the federal and state courts in Minnesota, decided within a 48-hour time span late this summer, addressed religious issues in two very different contexts.

In Minnesota, whistleblowers have been reeling for some period of time, highlighted by the fractured decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court overturning an award of nearly $330,000 for a discharged in-house lawyer in Kidwell v. Sybaritic Inc., 784 N.W.2d 220 (2010).

The doctrine of adverse possession is one that law students invariably encounter early in their education and rarely see again later in their careers.

Employees who refuse to sign an acknowledgement of disciplinary documentation run the serious risk of losing not only their jobs and but their eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits.

The state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals issued a pair of rulings dealing with dog laws during a 48-hour mid-summer span.