Minnesota Lawyer

The court ruled 4-3 that Gov. Tony Evers violated state law by unilaterally issuing multiple emergency orders to extend the mandate for months.

Biden on Tuesday nominated a racially diverse and overwhelmingly female group to federal and other judgeships, including three Black women for the U.S. courts of appeals.

A Minneapolis firefighter who voiced frustration at being prevented from using her EMT training to help George Floyd will be back on the stand Wednesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin.

The video of George Floyd gasping for breath was front and center Monday as the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee on the Black man’s neck went on trial on charges of murder and manslaughter.

A looming question is whether Derek Chauvin, charged with murder and manslaughter, can get a fair trial with so much pressure on jurors.

A longstanding concept holds that police officers are required to protect not only themselves and the public, but also the person they are arresting.

The Minneapolis Police Department has launched an internal affairs investigation after an officer who appears to be white was caught on video punching a Black teenager.

The Supreme Court is siding with a New Mexico woman who was shot by police as she drove away from them, in a case that will allow more excessive force lawsuits against police to go forward.

The justices unanimously rejected Ford's argument that its ties to Minnesota and Montana were too tenuous to allow it to be sued in those states by accident victims.

The jury that will decide the fate of a white former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death is unusually diverse by local standards.