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Minnesota’s District Court judges will seek a 5 percent per year pay raise in July 2019 and again in July 2020, lawmakers learned Wednesday. Anoka County District Court Judge Jonathan Jasper spoke to the House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law ...

Former assistant U.S. Attorney Lola Velazquez-Aguilu is the Commission on Judicial Selection’s new chair.

The Southdale Courthouse will close permanently at the end of the day on Friday, Feb. 1. Starting Monday, Feb. 4, misdemeanor criminal and traffic cases that would have been scheduled for court at Southdale will be moved to Ridgedale and two downtown Minneapolis locations: the ...

During his brief inaugural speech at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater, Keith Ellison pledged to reduce drug prices and to help Minnesotans “afford their lives.”

Two new judges and incumbent judges who were re-elected pose for a photo at their informal swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 7. From left are Judge Robyn A. Millenacker (re-elected), Judge Stephen L. Smith (re-elected), Judge Adam Yang (elected), Judge ...

Attorney General-elect Keith Ellison announced Friday that John Keller will serve as the second-ranking attorney in the office.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has directed the state court administrator to train judicial officers on the science behind eyewitness identifications.

Summaries of upcoming Supreme Court arguments.

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Disbarred and suspended

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Given the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook’s grievous data handling practices, lots of lawyers’ business clients are thinking about privacy and data protection these days. Attorney Michael R. Cohen has 161 pages of advice for them. Cohen, principal attorney and ...