Minnesota Lawyer

A federal judge has struck down a Minnesota law that prohibited winemakers from producing wine unless the majority of their ingredients were Gopher State-grown or produced.

A group of GOP lawmakers plans to appeal the lawsuit they lost in state District Court lawsuit on Tuesday, in which they tried to have Gov. Tim Walz’s peacetime emergency powers declared unconstitutional.

The American Constitution Society, along with local and national luminaries, is hosting a virtual tribute to the former Minnesota Supreme Court justice and U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota.

Applications are being taken for a spot on the 9th Judicial District bench that is opening with retirement of Judge Charles H. LeDuc.

Having developed the requisite social distancing and other COVID-19 precautions, courts in the state’s 6th Judicial District courts have been permitted to restart criminal jury trials.

The Judicial Selection Commission has handed Gov. Tim Walz nine names to fill four vacancies in the state’s 4th and 5th Judicial Districts.

Court watchers will see a familiar face reappear on their Zoom screens during Oct. 1 oral arguments at the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

It passed the Senate unanimously during the third special session on Aug. 12. Nonetheless, the Veterans Restorative Justice Act is on hold again.

Elizer Darris, an ACLU of Minnesota organizer and a former prison inmate, has been appointed to the state Board of Public Defense.

A conservative group says in a federal lawsuit that Gov. Walz's face mask order creates conflicting laws that stymie Minnesota voters, and is asking the state's U.S. District Court to step in.