Minnesota Lawyer

The 1920 event in Duluth takes on particular prominence in light of the death of George Floyd at the hands (and knee) of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day evening.

A pair of cases decided this spring by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals upheld challenges to searches by government authorities.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally come into the 20th century, it shouldn’t be too long before it takes a much-warranted stride into the 21st and, if it does, bring some other media-shy tribunals along with them, including the federal and state courts here in Minnesota.

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in a recent murder case out of Louisiana may hold the key to the vexing issue of the vitality of the doctrine of abortion rights.

The death in late March of longtime civil rights icon Joseph E. Lowery recalls his important, albeit involuntary, role in the development of libel law in this country and in Minnesota as well.

One of the signature cases pending at the U.S. Supreme Court before its current term is scheduled to conclude in a couple of months concerns the use of state funds to pay tuition for students in parochial schools.

Attorneys hankering to depose their adversary were recently furnished with a road map on how to do so by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Journalists commonly remark that “names make news,” meaning that news articles including names attract more attention than those lacking identification of individuals.

It’s Leap Year, again.

Allowing President Donald Trump to be the only name on the Republican ballot for the upcoming Minnesota primary election recalls a couple of other high profile ballot brouhahas in this state.