Minnesota Lawyer

A former Minnesota nurse who prosecutors say sought out depressed people in Internet chat rooms and encouraged two of them to kill themselves won't get his case dismissed on free speech grounds, a judge ruled last week.

A former Lindquist & Vennum attorney sentenced for embezzling $2.5 million from his clients and the firm was sentenced last week in federal court to embezzling approximately $2 million from his clients and the firm.

A former assistant Hennepin County attorney has been disbarred for running a prostitution ring.

A former Minnesota nurse charged with aiding the suicides of two people was not covered by free-speech protections when he sought out depressed people online and encouraged them to kill themselves, a prosecutor argued in court documents last week.

Rwanda's top prosecutor wants William Mitchell College of Law professor Peter Erlinder to appear in a Rwandan court on charges of genocide denial.

Former Twin Cities attorney Aaron Biber has received an 18-year sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old boy.

Duluth lawyer Fred Friedman was reappointed earlier this month to Northeastern Minnesota's chief public defender for a seventh four-year term.

The Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards has formally accused Hennepin County District Court Judge Jack Nordby of misconduct for criticizing a volunteer a court-monitoring organization in his courtroom.

Medtronic has agreed to pay $268 million to settle U.S. lawsuits and claims related to its Sprint Fidelis family of defibrillation leads which it recalled three years ago.

A judge has rejected another attempt to suspend a Minnesota law requiring disclosure of corporate political spending.