Minnesota Lawyer

Attorneys for Minnesota businessman Tom Petters asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his 2009 conviction on charges that he orchestrated a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Legal news from around the Midwest region.

A federal judge ruled last week a health insurer improperly denied benefits to a spouse who had undergone a sex change operation.

The Commission on Judicial Selection recommended three candidates to Gov. Mark Dayton for consideration to fill the current vacancy created upon Judge David Minge’s upcoming retirement from the 2nd Congressional District seat on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

A judge has cleared the way for the eventual release of an Eden Prairie man who drowned his infant son in a laundry tub.

A jury has found the Mayo Clinic not negligent in the 2009 death of a psychiatric patient who killed himself.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has threatened to cancel a lease agreement that allows the city of Duluth to collect a cut of revenue from the Fond-du-Luth video gambling machines.

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for bilking investors of millions of dollars in a house-flipping scheme.

A Duluth businesswoman who accused her psychotherapist of financial exploitation has settled a lawsuit against the defendant’s employer.

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has dismissed an employee for alleged irregularities in credit card transactions.