Minnesota Lawyer

Directing that the attorney fee award in a condemnation case get a likely serious haircut, the Minnesota Supreme Court remanded the case to the District Court with instructions that the lodestar fee amount may not be enhanced for the risk of non-recovery reflected in a contingent fee.

A Muslim inmate on death row had asked to spend his last moments in the comforting presence of an imam. The Alabama prison offered only a Christian chaplain, and the justices, by a vote of 5 to 4, refused to order the state to do any more.

A Minnesota House committee has approved a bill to strengthen the state’s laws against sexual harassment. The judiciary committee sent the bill to the floor on a 16-0 vote Thursday. Democratic Rep. Kelly Moller, of Shoreview, and other witnesses told ...

The line between an attempt to commit a crime and an intent to do so may be more blurry after a Court of Appeals decision upholding a conviction for attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Christina Zauhar, an attorney at Halberg Criminal Defense, said she "almost exclusively read[s] fictional crime novels."

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Loose lips sink settlements. In the age of social media, people are known for oversharing. But when it comes to bragging about a legal settlement that has a confidentiality clause, oversharing can cause more than awkwardness or ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina has published a book telling the lesser-known story of how an earlier federal judge from his home state set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Brown v. Board ...

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These opinions were released by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

These opinions were released by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.