Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an unpublished opinion concerning the preclusion of a child’s testimony in a protective services proceeding

Tagged with: All in the Family Cynthia Brown Jason Brown

A look at a dozen eclectic cases decided by the State Supreme Court during that landmark year.

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One needn’t be a libertarian to see why excessive fines constitute a serious problem.

By affecting our culture and modes of communication, social media reshapes many questions of legal and judicial ethics.

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What's the proper usage: “the plaintiff,” “plaintiff,” or “Plaintiff”?

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The late University of Maryland sociologist Morris Rosenberg used the word “mattering” to describe our need to believe “that we count in others’ lives, loom large in their thoughts, make a difference to them.”

Tagged with: Sybil Dunlop Sybil Procedure

Two cases, shattering the shield that effectively has barred oversight of the merits of an arbitrator’s ruling, share some similarities.

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In a free, open society, what justifies the use of secret indictments?

By Geoffrey Kozen Special to Minnesota Lawyer Persuasiveness of a brief can depend on a lot of things beyond the law it cites: who’s submitting it, who’s writing it, how it looks, and, in the end, how well it’s written. ...

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The new guide offers developmental and parenting time considerations with each stage, along with suggestions on how a parent can best support a child during each phase of life.

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