Minnesota Lawyer

Tom Petters, of Wayzata, is serving a 50-year prison sentence for defrauding investors out of $1.9 billion.

The department said 80% of Microsoft email accounts used by employees in the four U.S. attorney offices in New York were breached.

A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law.

President Joe Biden took quick action after his inauguration to start shifting federal inmates out of privately run prisons, where complaints of abuses abound.

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday found probable cause to charge a police officer in the 2016 slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car, taking the rare step of overruling prosecutors years after they declined to charge the officer.

The complaint says the mall and its security detail knew about the previous “violent, aggressive, and erratic” behavior displayed at the shopping center by the boy’s attacker.

More than half a century since they were modernized, hate crime laws in the U.S. are inconsistent and provide incomplete methods for addressing bias-motivated violence, according to a new report.

Federal legal guidance out this week suggests the law is on the side of employers. That said, employment lawyers believe many businesses will want to meet hesitant workers half-way.

A former Federal Reserve attorney who is now a business law professor writes that widespread bank consolidation has hurt consumers and the broader economy, but that stopping the consolidation won't be easy.

The nation’s reckoning with racial injustice has given new momentum to efforts to unearth racist property covenants and eradicate the language restricting residency to white people.