Minnesota Lawyer

A reasonable jury might find that a former RBC Wealth Management director faced sex discrimination on the job, a U.S. District Court has ruled, sending her case to trial.

The case of a convicted first-degree sex offender has been remanded to District Court for re-sentencing, based on the amelioration doctrine. But it might make no difference to the time the man serves behind bars.

People and Practices recognizes new hires and promotions. Submissions are encouraged.

A proposal to expand paralegals’ role in some housing and family law matters is in the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

A compromise plan was adopted that would bar any new civil jury cases from being tried, while allowing those already calendared to begin after Sept. 1.

A woman’s constitutional rights were not violated when Minneapolis police involuntarily removed her from her home and transported her to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed.

Two teens were charged in the Aug. 6 attack on Bloomington Imam Mohamed Mukhtar, who sustained a fractured shoulder.

Attorney General Keith Ellison has joined a federal lawsuit that, among other things, seeks a writ of mandamus to block the U.S. Postal Service from circumventing process and unilaterally implementing its "transformative" changes.

Weighing in on an acrimonious power struggle, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison is asking a court to oust three trustees of the Otto Bremer Trust over their attempt last fall to engineer a sale of the Bremer Financial Corp., the trust’s primary asset.

But 8th Circuit’s Judge Jane Kelly dissents in Burnsville use-of-force case.