Minnesota Lawyer

There is no authoritative answer, but several factors must be considered to begin formulating an answer.

A look at how you can take advantage of your new forum, an appeals court, to give your client the best chance of success.

Pro-choice advocates and pro-life proponents are waiting with bated breath as the high-profile Mississippi abortion case challenging the rights established in 1973 in Roe v. Wade is about to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Important questions must be addressed promptly and publicly, by the Supreme Court's appointment of a review committee, including public members, who will study and publicly report on the matter.

A relatively straightforward unanimous ruling this summer by the Minnesota Supreme Court in a gun-related criminal case may be in the bull’s-eye of a more convoluted civil firearms appeal heard last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Are you concerned your company’s intellectual property or proprietary data may have been misappropriated or otherwise lost or shared with unauthorized parties, intentionally or negligently? Creating a timeline of events is a key requirement for securing a successful outcome.

Over the past few years, the importance of picking the right font for an appellate brief has been a topic of discussion among lawyers, publishers and, at times, the courts.

During a 24-hour span last month, the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgated rulings in a pair of accelerated appeals, remarkably rapid rulings prompted by the urgency of those matters, along with one other major matter that proceeded along a more leisurely, conventional pace.

If Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wishes to play a centrist role, whether he can be a "swing" vote and how he goes about it may impact the law in general and here in Minnesota, too.

The humble federal notice of appeal: Most of us probably think of it as the quintessential formality, obtaining judicial review simply by ticking the right boxes.