Minnesota Lawyer

News stories from around the Midwest region.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request to consider cases from the states at an expedited pace, saying it would consolidate arguments from all three and would hear oral arguments the week of May 11.

The Wisconsin Legislature created the Wisconsin Judicial Council in 1951 as an independent judicial branch agency.

A Minnesota man who left the U.S. in 2007 and joined the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia was released from federal prison on Thursday.

Legal news from the Midwest region.

Columbia County District Attorney Jane Kohlwey said prosecutors recently discovered “issues” with several pieces of evidence that were supposed to have been analyzed by the crime lab.

Koua Fong Lee’s Camry rear-ended an Oldsmobile at high speed on July 10, 2006, as he drove up an Interstate 94 off-ramp in St. Paul.

The EEOC alleges Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors, of Superior, violated federal law by firing two employees when they reached age 62.

The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council filed the lawsuit in Minneapolis in 2013 after some activist groups requested the Environmental Protection Agency data under the Freedom of Information Act.

Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, will have limited hours outside the halfway house and will be monitored.