Minnesota Lawyer

Lawyers for local governments announced Tuesday they were on the verge of a $26 billion settlement with the nation’s three biggest drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson as part of the effort to force the industry to help pay to fix a nationwide opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

The Idaho Press Club is suing Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin after several journalists said they were wrongly denied access to public records.

The proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota encountered a setback Monday when the state Court of Appeals ordered regulators to revisit a critical air emissions permit given to the project.

The Biden administration convened the first meeting of its community violence intervention collaborative, a group of mayors and administration officials that will share best practices and work closely with the federal government to reduce gun violence.

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.