Minnesota Lawyer

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling.

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state lawmakers can hire private attorneys at taxpayer expense even before a lawsuit has been filed, an expansion of what had been done under current law.

Some things to know about the leading candidates, including Minnesota's Wilhelmina Wright, to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has the air of an absent-minded professor, but it does not mask a relentlessly pragmatic approach to the law that often finds him searching for a middle ground.

Prosecutors in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd’s killing probed the department’s training on use of force, a key issue at the heart of charges that the officers violated Floyd’s civil rights.

Federal prosecutors building their case against three Minneapolis police officers on trial on charges accusing them of violating George Floyd’s civil rights turned Wednesday to a pair of witnesses who testified last year at Derek Chauvin’s trial

A federal appeals court allowed the state of Iowa to enforce a law that prevents local schools from imposing mask mandates, except for schools attended by students whose disabilities make them more vulnerable to severe illness if they get COVID-19.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges as potential Supreme Court nominees who would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court, according to aides and allies.

Derek Smith said that after he arrived on May 25, 2020, he could not find a pulse in Floyd’s neck and that the Black man’s pupils were large, indicating that “the patient was probably deceased.”

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming  the first Black woman to the high court,  two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday.