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Ruling isn’t going to save the Dreamers
A federal judge in California on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump from rescinding the DACA program
Perspectives: Martin Luther King Day recalls litigation here
This dual day of his birthday and the observance of the day named for him provides an opportune occasion to review some of the litigation in Minnesota.
Manafort’s lawsuit finds Trump in strange spot
Paul Manafort’s lawyers deserve points for creativity.
All in the Family: New year brings new laws affecting practices
Aside from number crunching, some interesting issues have cropped up outside of Minnesota.
Commentary: The fallout from Franken’s Senate resignation
How has the state and national political world changed?
Legal Writing Notebook: In 2018, let us resolve to table ‘motioned’
Motioning is what people do with their hands to communicate nonverbally when they can’t communicate verbally.
Next step on taxes is repairing what’s wrong
By Noah Smith Bloomberg View The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 — commonly known as the Republican tax reform bill — has a number of good things in it. My Bloomberg View colleague Justin Fox has an excellent rundown. The corporate-tax rate cut was something that needed to happen for a long time, and mainly just follows the example set by other developed nations. Limits on the mortgage-int[...]
Final dispatches from 2017’s ‘war on Christmas’
Here are this season’s final updates on the Christmas wars.
Perspectives: Minnesota has a legacy of slavery, too
Slavery made its mark here in the days surrounding the Civil War, and its impact affected the whole country.
Sybil Procedure: Judge nominee Petersen failed as own advocate
Petersen didn’t show himself to be a good lawyer. And a district court judge needs to be a good lawyer.
The Complete Lawyer: ‘Leaving for new endeavors’
From time to time, everyone leaves for a new endeavor, whether intentionally or not.
Muddy liberal thinking on new gun-rights law
Liberals should be careful about borrowing the tools of constitutional conservatism to oppose the bill on states-rights grounds.
Top News
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- Defining ‘and’ in sentencing statute falls to Supreme Court
- Hashtag rates higher libel protection
- Court: Performance issues, not bias, prompted union to fire organizer
- Robot milker case yields $122M
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Expert Testimony
- Briefly: A chat with Supreme Court Commissioner Tim Droske
- Perspectives: Oral arguments at high court stir lively debates
- Quandaries & Quagmires: Advance waivers: Lessons from Paul Hastings vs. Coca Cola
- Perspectives: Recent cellphone ruling recalls high court cases
