A bill that creates a gross misdemeanor for employers who steal or wrongfully withhold workers’ wages likely will make a stop in the House Judiciary committee next week.
Read More »In the Hopper: Judges’ pay; gang data; prison segregation
The Minnesota Judicial Branch and the Minnesota District Judges Association offered lawmakers competing judge pay-raise requests on Feb. 13.
Read More »In the Hopper: DWI omnibus; single-subject amendment; moving on
The Senate Judiciary committee on Feb. 6 heard three bills that likely will become part of a larger Senate DWI omnibus package.
Read More »In the Hopper: Restrictive covenants, bar mix, data breaches
The Minnesota House unanimously voted to allow homeowners with restrictive covenants written into their properties’ historical abstracts to attach an affidavit forswearing that antiquated segregationist practice.
Read More »In the Hopper: ‘Gender-based Violence Prevention Week’ edition
In this special In the Hopper edition, we focus entirely on that subject.
Read More »In the Hopper: Blaha’s blues; dueling pot bills; a new ERA
Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, has greeted new State Auditor Julie Blaha with a punitive bill that would send hundreds of thousands of dollars from Blaha’s budget to the three Minnesota counties sued by her predecessor.
Read More »In the Hopper: GOP Senate, DFL House list their priorities
The House being twice as large the Senate, DFLers listed exactly twice as many priority bills — 10 to the Senate’s five.
Read More »In the Hopper: Provisions lost to Omnibus Prime’s fall
“The Legislature gambled and lost,” Secretary of State Steve Simon said
Read More »In the Hopper: Catching up on bills signed and vetoed
So far the governor has vetoed eight bills that passed during the session just ended. He has signed a total of 81 bills into law; one other bill was allowed to become law without a signature.
Read More »In the Hopper: Key bills signed, vetoed so far
A selection of 16 bills Gov. Dayton has signed or vetoed that might be of interest to attorneys.
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