Minnesota Lawyer

The Federal Medical & Family Leave Act, which covers about 25 percent of the workforce, allows permanent employees with companies of 50 or more employees to take time off for medical-related reasons.

A quintet of recent contract cases reflects the rich diversity the courts face in adjudicating contract disputes.

As the 2012-13 school year draws to a close, pupils and educators are sorting out the results of six recent rulings of the Minnesota Court of Appeals and its federal counterpart.

In rare instances, the appellate tribunal reverses the ULJ decisions against an employee, as occurred recently in four cases.

Withdrawing a plea is about as hard as putting the proverbial camel through the eye of a needle, as reflected in a trio of recent cases.

The gala opening of the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis on May 7, 1963, helped the Twin Cities establish its position as one of the most highly regarded and respected communities for the arts, especially for its size, in the country and the world.

Mandatory arbitration agreements containing waivers of various statutory rights are being used with increasing frequency.

While ordinarily devoted to reviewing recent rulings of the Federal and state courts in Minnesota affecting practice of law in this state, this column on occasion, however, strays to look at other matters of interest to the bench and bar.

The Minnesota anti-stalking law is being invoked with increasing frequency by criminal law authroities. The rise in stalking prosecution seems attributable to several factors.

The federal trial courts in the district of Minnesota recently addressed a pair of concurrent forum selection cases. Both cases dealt with clauses choosing the court where claims were to be contested.