Minnesota Lawyer

The Supreme Court is siding with two Catholic schools in a ruling that underscores that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can't sue for employment discrimination.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request for an emergency order to delay the process of shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline while attorneys appeal a ruling to shutter the pipeline during the course of an environmental review.

The high court on Wednesday said 7-2 the administration acted properly when it made the change, which lower courts had blocked.

The hearings brought into sharp relief the competing narratives likely to play out — again — during a second summertime special session, which is expected to start Monday.

From a big-picture perspective, it’s critical for in-house legal teams to consider a wide range of issues, from reviewing contracts for force majeure provisions, to labor and employment issues surrounding employees who get sick, and more.

The state Human Rights Department has settled a discrimination case involving a Black woman who claimed she was harassed, based on her race, while working as a personal care attendant in Sartell, Minnesota.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to a public trial, but some courts have held arraignments and other pretrial hearings without the public watching or listening.

A trash hauler ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages for breaking an oral agreement to buy another company’s assets has lost its bid to overturn the case.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t hear oral arguments in a lawsuit seeking to purge thousands of voters from the rolls until at least September, raising questions about whether the justices will rule before the presidential election.

A five-hour Senate oversight committee hearing Wednesday to examine Twin Cities rioting left Republicans and Democrats pretty much where they were when they started.