Minnesota Lawyer

A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials in the coronavirus pandemic.

Shirley Troutman, a judge on New York’s highest court, was working April 7 when her daughter texted messages that included a clapping hands emoji. Soon, her phone was buzzing with other celebratory messages.

The United States has become a nation divided over important issues in K-12 education, including which books students should be able to read in public school.

A Minnesota court will supervise the dissolution of a nonprofit meals program that’s under federal investigation for allegedly defrauding the government of millions of dollars.

Two Illinois men who helped bomb a Bloomington mosque in 2017 on Tuesday received prison sentences far below the 35-year mandatory minimum that they had faced.

The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 car crash in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal.

Prosecutors revealed that they offered plea deals to three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd, but said at a hearing that the defendants rejected them.

Reaction to Jackson’s confirmation was jubilant from many corners, and the word “historic” was repeated again and again.

Prosecutors declined to file charges Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February.

The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice.