Minnesota Lawyer

When it comes to organizing for trial and questioning witnesses, there is no “one size fits all” way to do it. Nevertheless, there are good reasons for and against different approaches.

Forced vaccination is a classic instance of a situation where the courts have to balance individual liberties against the public interest.

What if we told you that there is a new parenthetical used in legal citations that is taking the appellate world by storm? Yes, it’s hard to believe that appellate lawyers are so easily impressed but some of us just are.

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Can Assange be lawfully prosecuted for somehow facilitating illegal theft of classified information? Or is the organization he founded, WikiLeaks, protected by the First Amendment when it publishes documents supplied by others, like the New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers?

Evolutions in communication technology are occurring at a pace much more rapid than the development of defamation case law.

It’s hard to think of a more unlikely human rights hero than Kirstjen Nielsen, the outgoing secretary of homeland security. But if CNN’s reporting is accurate, Nielsen actually did sacrifice her job for the legal rights of asylum seekers.

The Minnesota Supreme Court in Daniel v. City of Minneapolis overruled itself, and 30 years of precedent, by holding the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act’s exclusivity provision does not bar disability discrimination claims for the same injury.

Two key developments to discuss this month: shared parenting legislation and an unreported decision involving ongoing jurisdiction over a divorce litigant’s personal injury lawsuit.

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The Final Four evokes flashbacks to the rich lore of basketball in this state, which has extended from the hard courts to the judicial ones.

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What’s really at stake is whether and how the Supreme Court should engage with what the late Justice Harry Blackmun memorably called “the machinery of death.”