Minnesota Lawyer

The return of the U.S. Supreme Court from its summer recess today gives the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a chance to improve its ...

“Finality as a condition of review is an historic characteristic of federal appellate procedure.” —Cobbledick v. United States, 309 U.S. 323, 324-25 (1940) There’s an ...

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.” —Susan B. Anthony (March 18, 1869) Equal pay was the subject of a ...

As educational personnel head back to school to begin the upcoming academic year, teachers who have not achieved tenure through the public school system are ...

One of the many important rights of criminal defendants is contained in the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. Under that provision, and its counterpart ...

“Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.” —Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association, February 2009 The ...

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” —Jacques Barzun, God’s Country and Mind (1954) Second U.S. Circuit Court ...

“In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days …” —Charles Lamb, Old Familiar Faces (1798) As the 2008-09 school year was drawing to ...

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.” —Samuel Goldwyn of MGM Studios (1937) The concept of oral agreements usually evokes thoughts ...

“For my voice, I have lost it …”. —W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part II (1598) Disabled employees, employers and their respective advocates are awaiting ...