Minnesota Lawyer

Does the ban on workplace discrimination based on “sex,” as laid out in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity? U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up both questions in its October 2019 term. It’s potentially a big moment for LGBT rights.

By F. Dennis Saylor IV and Daniel I. Small BridgeTower Media Newswires Technology has ...

The demise of low-visibility individuals often obscures their importance in the law.

I can do math and at this rate, it will take 120 years to get to gender parity on the 8th Circuit. Which is troubling because women have been graduating from law school at the same rate as men since the 1980s.

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.

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.