Minnesota Lawyer

Regrets only Can a judge slash a prison sentence based purely on a defendant’s expressions of remorse? That was the question before the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday when the court took up the case of a convicted rapist from ...

Former JAG wins pro bono case for 83-year-old vet Congrats to Jacqueline Schuh of Engelmeier & Umanah on a nifty pro bono win on behalf of an 83-year-old Air Force veteran from St. Cloud named Richard W. Staab. As recounted ...

Several members of Minnesota’s family law bar got a rare moment in the prime time spotlight recently, courtesy of ABC’s tabloid TV show “20/20.” In an hourlong episode titled “Footprints in the Snow” that aired April 8 (and is available ...

Jeff Sheridan, the prominent DWI defense lawyer from Eagan whose constitutional challenge to Minnesota test-refusal statute will go before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 20, traveled to the state Capitol the other day to share his views on a ...

Late last week, the activist attorney Jordan Kushner received official notice that the city of Minneapolis is dropping three misdemeanor charges brought against him following his arrest during a speech by the controversial Israeli academic Moshe Halbertal at the University ...

Is the video recorded on Metropolitan Council buses public? That’s a simple question but it produced some mighty convoluted answers at the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday, where the justices heard oral arguments in the Met Council’s appeal of lower ...

Until a few days ago, Alex White Plume, a former president of South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux Tribe and a celebrated pioneer of the industrial hemp movement, had a singular distinction. For the previous 11 years, White Plume was subject to ...

An Eden Prairie man who has filed six unsuccessful malpractice actions against various attorneys over the past decade is going to have to ask for permission before he tries again. Last month, Hennepin County District Court Judge Bruce Manning barred ...

There was something striking about last week’s announcement from Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Christopher Dietzen that he plans to resign his seat this summer so that Gov. Mark Dayton and the Commission on Judicial Selection can select his replacement. ...

U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz belongs to a very small fraternity. Make that a tiny fraternity. He is the only person currently serving on the federal bench who clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Schiltz straddled a particularly ...