Minnesota Lawyer

The state Supreme Court has upheld $5 million in damages for a man who claims his father and brother unfairly squeezed him out of the family’s giant beef jerky company.

Officers have uncovered nearly 400 knives, ammunition, pepper spray and other items considered to be weapons during the first three months of metal detector screening at the Portage County Courthouse.

Retaliation remains the most common claim of workplace bias among federal employees, according to a new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a challenge to Minnesota’s law requiring disclosure of corporate political donations.

The whistle-blower who exposed the $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme of Wayzata businessman Tom Petters has been transferred back to Minnesota ahead of her release from custody next month.

A Marshall, Minn., man convicted of abducting and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old paper girl could be eligible for parole in nearly 34 years. A Renville County district judge sentenced 26-year-old Matthew Fahey to the mandatory life in prison Tuesday and set parole eligibility at 33 years, 8 months.

A federal judge on Monday approved a $3.4 billion settlement over mismanaged Indian royalties in a case that represents the largest class-action settlement ever approved against the U.S. government.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Michael Davis won’t dismiss the indictment against two Minnesota women accused of funneling money to the terror group al-Shabab in Somalia, saying their alleged conduct is not protected under the First Amendment.

A member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe who was brutally beaten in 2006, dragged behind a car and left for dead in subzero weather after refusing to join the Vice Lords has been awarded more than $4.2 million in tribal court, his attorney announced Wednesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Ann Montgomery ruled that a Minnesota man incarcerated after a 2006 fatal crash involving a Toyota Camry who was later cleared can't collect damages from the automaker for the time he spent in prison.