Minnesota Lawyer

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland tossed a Trump administration policy Thursday that barred immigration judges from putting off the deportation cases of immigrants waiting on green cards and visas.

Finding an “off ramp” for the state’s eviction moratorium was one of the priorities for the Legislature’s special session this month.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is leading in the fundraising race for attorney general, bringing in a record amount for this point in the election cycle.

A scholar of employment law and policy has many concerns about noncompete clauses — such as how they tend to aggravate the power imbalances relationship between workers and bosses and suppress wages and discourage labor market mobility.

Groups opposed to Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision affirming the approvals granted by independent regulators.

Legal standards to prove discrimination to the EEOC or in court are quite high, and the burden of proof falls largely on the employee.

Democratic incumbent Josh Kaul officially launched his reelection bid and a Republican challenger reported a record-high amount of fundraising for this point in the campaign.

Minnesota’s independent legislative auditor says he doesn’t have the resources to satisfy a request by lawmakers for a comprehensive study of the state’s COVID-19 response.

Some legal scholars say that sedition charges could be justified but that prosecutors may be reluctant to bring them because of their legal complexity and the difficulty historically in securing convictions.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a circuit judge for making a litany of crude remarks to defendants and attorneys and for menacing a burglary defendant with a gun he pulled out from under his robe.