Minnesota Lawyer

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.

The number of prominent Minnesota tennis stars has been dwarfed by many tennis-related cases in Minnesota. They cover a broad range of subjects ranging from “A” for antitrust to “Z” for zoning. The national championship provides an appropriate occasion to look at some of Minnesota’s own litigation lore.

The Arizona immigration law and Obama health care measure rulings, and the pivotal role of Chief Justice John Roberts, will be grist for years to come for lawyers, historians and others dissecting the U.S. Supreme Court and its machinations.

Minnesota continues to embrace arbitration as evidenced in a pair of recent rulings of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. In both cases, the court confronted issues of arbitrability of legal disputes and the effect of those arbitrations and, in both cases, the arbitrable process was upheld.

Both cases share the similarity of claimants injured at construction work sites seeking damages outside of the workers’ compensation system.

The tort of common law invasion of privacy was not recognized in Minnesota until 1998. Since its inception in Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 582 N.W.2d 231 (1998), the cause of action for privacy has been addressed infrequently by the courts and has not made much headway.

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.